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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2021-ec6398823b
2021-04-28 00:31:12.781414
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Name : openvpn
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 2.4.11
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:
Security update - OpenVPN 2.5.1 and earlier versions allows a remote attackers
to bypass authentication and access control channel data on servers configured
with deferred authentication, which can be used to potentially trigger further
information leaks. (CVE-2020-15078)
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Apr 21 2021 David Sommerseth <davids(a)openvpn.net> - 2.4.11-1
- Update to upstream OpenVPN 2.4.11
- Fixes CVE-2020-15078
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1952936 - CVE-2020-15078 openvpn: Authentication bypass with deferred
authentication [epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1952936
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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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