-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2023-d9d55a0bfc 2023-11-23 01:22:58.936150 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : openvpn Product : Fedora 39 Version : 2.6.8 Release : 1.fc39 URL : https://community.openvpn.net/ Summary : A full-featured TLS VPN solution (beta release) Description : OpenVPN is a robust and highly flexible tunneling application that uses all of the encryption, authentication, and certification features of the OpenSSL library to securely tunnel IP networks over a single UDP or TCP port. It can use the Marcus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumers LZO library for compression.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This is an extended update of the OpenVPN 2.6.7 release which contains security fixes for CVE-2023-46849 and CVE-2023-46850. That release had a regression causing the `openvpn` daemon to segfault frequently; which is why the 2.6.7 release was pulled. This 2.6.8 release contains a fix for the regression issue as well. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Mon Nov 20 2023 David Sommerseth davids@openvpn.net - 2.6.8-1 - Update to upstream OpenPVN 2.6.7 - Fixes a regression from 2.6.7 resulting in a SIGSEGV (GitHub#449) * Thu Nov 9 2023 David Sommerseth davids@openvpn.net - 2.6.7-1 - Update to upstream OpenVPN 2.6.7 - Fixes CVE-2023-46849, CVE-2023-46850 - Fix false exit status on pre runtime scriptlet (Elkhan Mammadli elkhan@almalinux.org, RHBZ#2239722) - Fix regression of systemctl scriptlet globbing issues (RHBZ#1887984); reintroduced in openvpn-2.6.0-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #2250097 - CVE-2023-46849 openvpn: Use of --fragment option can lead to a division by zero error [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250097 [ 2 ] Bug #2250100 - CVE-2023-46850 openvpn: Incorrect use of send buffer can cause memory to be sent to peer [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250100 [ 3 ] Bug #2250513 - openvpn-2.6.8 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250513 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-d9d55a0bfc' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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