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An openvpn security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: openvpn-2.6.8-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-e4df33666c
2023-11-29 01:27:58.698482
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Name : openvpn
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 2.6.8
Release : 1.fc38
URL : https://community.openvpn.net/
Summary : A full-featured TLS VPN solution (beta release)
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 is an extended update of the OpenVPN 2.6.7 release which contains security
fixes for CVE-2023-46849 and CVE-2023-46850. That release had a regression
causing the `openvpn` daemon to segfault frequently; which is why the 2.6.7
release was pulled. This 2.6.8 release contains a fix for the regression issue
as well.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Nov 20 2023 David Sommerseth [davids@openvpn.net] - 2.6.8-1
- Update to upstream OpenPVN 2.6.7
- Fixes a regression from 2.6.7 resulting in a SIGSEGV (GitHub#449)
* Thu Nov 9 2023 David Sommerseth [davids@openvpn.net] - 2.6.7-1
- Update to upstream OpenVPN 2.6.7
- Fixes CVE-2023-46849, CVE-2023-46850
- Fix false exit status on pre runtime scriptlet (Elkhan Mammadli [elkhan@almalinux.org], RHBZ#2239722)
- Fix regression of systemctl scriptlet globbing issues (RHBZ#1887984); reintroduced in openvpn-2.6.0-1
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2250097 - CVE-2023-46849 openvpn: Use of --fragment option can lead to a division by zero error [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250097
[ 2 ] Bug #2250100 - CVE-2023-46850 openvpn: Incorrect use of send buffer can cause memory to be sent to peer [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250100
[ 3 ] Bug #2250513 - openvpn-2.6.8 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250513
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-e4df33666c' 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
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