Fedora Linux 8781 Published by

An openvpn security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: openvpn-2.4.11-1.fc33


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-242ef81244
2021-04-24 18:04:51.466061
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name : openvpn
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 2.4.11
Release : 1.fc33
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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr 21 2021 David Sommerseth - 2.4.11-1
- Update to upstream OpenVPN 2.4.11
- Fixes CVE-2020-15078
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1952935 - CVE-2020-15078 openvpn: Authentication bypass with deferred authentication [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1952935
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-242ef81244' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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/keys