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OpenVPN 2.6.9 released

Post by flichtenheld » Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:23 am

The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.6.9. This is a bugfix release containing one security fix for the Windows installer.
Security fixes:
  • Windows Installer: fix CVE-2023-7235 where installing to a non-default
    directory could lead to a local privilege escalation. Reported by Will Dormann.
New features:
  • Add support for building with mbedTLS 3.x.x
  • New option --force-tls-key-material-export to only accept clients
    that can do TLS keying material export to generate session keys
    (mostly an internal option to better deal with TLS 1.0 PRF failures).
  • Windows: bump vcpkg-ports/pkcs11-helper to 1.30
  • Log incoming SSL alerts in easier to understand form and move logging
    from --verb 8 to --verb 3.
  • protocol_dump(): add support for printing --tls-crypt packets
User visible changes:
  • License change is now complete, and all code has been re-licensed
    under the new license (still GPLv2, but with new linking exception
    for Apache2 licensed code). See COPYING for details.

    Code that could not be re-licensed has been removed or rewritten.
  • The original code for the --tls-export-cert feature has been removed
    (due to the re-licensing effort) and rewritten without looking at the
    original code. Feature-compatibility has been tested by other developers,
    looking at both old and new code and documentation, so there *should*
    not be a user-visible change here.
  • IPv6 route addition/deletion are now logged on the same level (3) as
    for IPv4. Previously IPv6 was always logged at --verb 1.
  • Better handling of TLS 1.0 PRF failures in the underlying SSL library
    (e.g. on some FIPS builds) - this is now reported on startup, and
    clients before 2.6.0 that can not use TLS EKM to generate key material
    are rejected by the server. Also, error messages are improved to see
    what exactly failed.
Notable bug fixes:
  • FreeBSD: for servers with multiple clients, reporting of peer traffic
    statistics would fail due to insufficient buffer space (Github: #487)
Windows MSI changes since 2.6.8:
  • Security fix, see above
  • Built against OpenSSL 3.2.0
  • Included openvpn-gui updated to 11.47.0.0
    • Windows GUI: always update tray icon on state change (Github: #669)
      (for persistent connection profiles, "connecting" state would not show)

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Frank Lichtenheld
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OpenVPN, Inc.

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