[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: openvpn-2.3.6-1.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-16273
2014-12-04 05:22:47
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Name        : openvpn
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.3.6
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : http://openvpn.net/
Summary     : A full-featured SSL VPN solution
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 Oberhumer's LZO library
for compression.

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2014-8104.

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/SecurityAnnouncement-97597e732b
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Dec  1 2014 Jon Ciesla <limburgher at gmail.com> 2.3.6-1
- 2.3.6, CVE-2014-8104.
* Fri Nov 21 2014 Ralf Corsépius <corsepiu at fedoraproject.org> - 2.3.5-2
- Rework package doc handling (RHBZ #1165004).
* Tue Oct 28 2014 Jon Ciesla <limburgher at gmail.com> 2.3.5-1
- 2.3.5.
* Tue Aug 26 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 2.3.4-4
* Fri Nov 21 2014 Ralf Corsépius <corsepiu at fedoraproject.org> - 2.3.2-7
- Rework package doc handling (RHBZ #1165004).
* Tue Aug 26 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 2.3.2-6
- Enable systemd support.
* Sun Jan 19 2014 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 2.3.2-5
- Don't order service after syslog.target.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1169487 - CVE-2014-8104 openvpn: authenticated user can DoS OpenVPN by sending a too-short control channel packet to server [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169487
  [ 2 ] Bug #1169488 - CVE-2014-8104 openvpn: authenticated user can DoS OpenVPN by sending a too-short control channel packet to server [epel-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169488
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update openvpn' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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