The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.6.7.
This is a bugfix release containing security fixes.
Security Fixes:
* CVE-2023-46850 OpenVPN versions between 2.6.0 and 2.6.6 incorrectly use a
send buffer after
it has been free()d in some circumstances, causing some free()d memory to be
sent to the peer.
All configurations using TLS (e.g. not using --secret) are affected by this
issue.
(found while tracking down CVE-2023-46849 / Github #400, #417)
* CVE-2023-46849 OpenVPN versions between 2.6.0 and 2.6.6 incorrectly restore
--fragment configuration
in some circumstances, leading to a division by zero when --fragment is used.
On platforms where
division by zero is fatal, this will cause an OpenVPN crash.(Github #400,
#417).
User visible changes:
* DCO: warn if DATA_V1 packets are sent by the other side - this a hard
incompatibility between
a 2.6.x client connecting to a 2.4.0-2.4.4 server, and the only fix is to use
--disable-dco.
* Remove OpenSSL Engine method for loading a key. This had to be removed
because the original author
did not agree to relicensing the code with the new linking exception added.
This was a somewhat
obsolete feature anyway as it only worked with OpenSSL 1.x, which is
end-of-support.
* add warning if p2p NCP client connects to a p2mp server - this is a
combination that used to work
without cipher negotiation (pre 2.6 on both ends), but would fail in
non-obvious ways with 2.6 to 2.6.
* add warning to --show-groups that not all supported groups are listed (this is
due the internal enumeration in OpenSSL being a bit weird, omitting X448 and
X25519 curves).
* --dns: remove support for exclude-domains argument (this was a new 2.6 option,
with no backend support implemented yet on any platform, and it turns out that
no platform supported it at all - so remove option again)
* warn user if INFO control message too long, do not forward to management
client
(safeguard against protocol-violating server implementations)
New features:
* DCO-WIN: get and log driver version (for easier debugging).
* print "peer temporary key details" in TLS handshake
* log OpenSSL errors on failure to set certificate, for example if the
algorithms used
are in acceptable to OpenSSL (misleading message would be printed in cryptoapi
/ pkcs11 scenarios)
* add CMake build system for MinGW and MSVC builds
* remove old MSVC build system
* improve cmocka unit test building for Windows
Windows MSI changes since 2.6.6:
* Included openvpn-gui updated to 11.45.0.0
* Add clarity for error on missing management parameter. See GH #657
* Improve "OpenVPN GUI" tooltip handling See GH #649
* MSIs now use OpenSSL 3.1.4
More details can be found in the Changes document:
<https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/release/2.6/Changes.rst>
(The Changes document also contains a section with work-arounds for
common problems encountered when using OpenVPN with OpenSSL 3)
Source code and Windows installers can be downloaded from our download page:
<https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/>
Debian and Ubuntu packages are available in the official apt repositories:
<https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenvpnSoftwareRepos#DebianUbuntu:UsingOpenVPNaptrepositories>
On Red Hat derivatives we recommend using the Fedora Copr repository.
<https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-release-2.6/>
Kind regards,
Yuriy Darnobyt
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