Fedora 27: openvpn Security Update
Summary
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.
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]((Link no longer available)openvpn/wiki/CVE-2017-12166))
From this update of, OpenVPN will use the lz4 compression library from Fedora
instead of the upstream bundled library.
[ 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
su -c 'dnf upgrade openvpn' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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/security/
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