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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2017-c9f915d837
2017-05-16 12:18:26.650945
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Name : openvpn
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 2.4.2
Release : 2.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:
This update brings in the latest OpenVPN v2.4.2 release. This release contains
fixes for two authenticated remote DoS vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-7478 and
CVE-2017-7479). For more information see the upstream [security announcement](h
ttp://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/QuarkslabAndCryptographyEngineer...)
. Also added a few fixes, related to package and own some run/shared state
directories.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #922786 - New directory for openvpn variable data /var/lib/openvpn/ request
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922786
[ 2 ] Bug #1444601 - OpenVPN fails to launch due to missing /var/run directory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444601
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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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