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Medium ALAS2023-2026-1644 2 CVEs

Moderate: openvpn security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published May 11, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-40215: In a race condition an old TLS session could still try to send a packet but also get replaced by a new session. In this case, the buffer of the new session is still referenced. Add the check_session_buf_not_used function to mitigate this problem. CVE-2026-35058: According to upstream advisory (https://community.openvpn.net/Security%20Announcements/CVE-2026-35058): OpenVPN server crash via ASSERT triggered by malformed tls-crypt-v2 packet; attacker with a valid tls-crypt-v2 client key can send a crafted control channel packet to crash the server (DoS). Fixed in 2.6.20 and 2.7.2.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 openvpn 0:2.6.12-1.amzn2023.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2023 openvpn-debuginfo 0:2.6.12-1.amzn2023.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2023 openvpn-debugsource 0:2.6.12-1.amzn2023.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2023 openvpn-devel 0:2.6.12-1.amzn2023.0.4

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-35058.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-40215.html