Slackware alert SSA:2025-323-01 (openvpn)
| From: | Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com> | |
| To: | slackware-security@slackware.com | |
| Subject: | [slackware-security] openvpn (SSA:2025-323-01) | |
| Date: | Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:35:17 -0800 | |
| Message-ID: | <alpine.LNX.2.02.2511191534570.16719@connie.slackware.com> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] openvpn (SSA:2025-323-01) New openvpn packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/openvpn-2.6.16-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Fix memcmp check for the hmac verification in the 3way handshake. This bug renders the HMAC based protection against state exhaustion on receiving spoofed TLS handshake packets in the OpenVPN server inefficient. For more information, see: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-1... (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patc... Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/pa... Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/s... Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current... MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 15.0 package: f3800e33112d44d10d846224eb480e81 openvpn-2.6.16-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: cdaa50283a4666a8833606e3845e4f31 openvpn-2.6.16-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz Slackware -current package: 0ad85260fe495647e4cc543207e65905 n/openvpn-2.6.16-i686-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: d911262d05d67dfc9f0f8f642a87b0f4 n/openvpn-2.6.16-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg openvpn-2.6.16-i586-1_slack15.0.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security@slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | To leave the slackware-security mailing list: | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Send an email to majordomo@slackware.com with this text in the body of | | the email message: | | | | unsubscribe slackware-security | | | | You will get a confirmation message back containing instructions to | | complete the process. Please do not reply to this email address. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQTsVknaQB4iq/pnNu9qRGPAQBAiMwUCaR5S9wAKCRBqRGPAQBAi MyJzAKCEEWG4LoAJeW8xlp+5F+CvLiijiQCdHoPBGdAEXV2B8VmFRbn8WvmO5z4= =tN7r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----