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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2017-4826761f5d
2017-10-16 15:50:27.889109
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Name : openvpn
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 2.4.4
Release : 1.el7
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:
Maintenance release with several minor upstream bugfixes and a security fix
related to legacy configurations deploying the deprecated `key-method 1`
configuration option
([
CVE-2017-12166](https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2017-12166)).
From this update of, OpenVPN will use the lz4 compression library from Fedora
EPEL instead of the upstream bundled library.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1497109 - CVE-2017-12166 openvpn: Incorrect bounds check in read_key() with
'key-method 1'
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1497109
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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/...
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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