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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2022-883139a5ce
2022-03-25 21:29:32.324477
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Name : openvpn
Product : Fedora EPEL 8
Version : 2.4.12
Release : 1.el8
URL :
https://community.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 Oberhumers LZO library
for compression.
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Update Information:
This is a security and bugfix release of OpenVPN 2.4 with a security fix when
used in server mode (CVE-2022-0547). The other changes are available in [Changes
.rst](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/release/2.4/Changes.rst#version-24
12). **NOTE:** Please read the CVE description carefully if you use
authentication plug-ins with a server configuration. **WARNING: ** OpenVPN 2.4
will from now only receive security and critical bug fixes for the next 12
months. Please consider to upgrade to [OpenVPN 2.5 via Fedora
Copr](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-release/) builds.
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Mar 17 2022 David Sommerseth <davids(a)openvpn.net> - 2.4.12-1
- Update to upstream OpenVPN 2.4.12
- Fixes CVE-2022-0547
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update openvpn' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL 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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