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High ALAS2023-2026-3226 1 CVE

Important: openvpn security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Oct 26, 2026 · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-84790: When using the OpenSSL library, we escaped embedded null-bytes in a certificate's subject in x509_get_subject(), but in extract_x509_field_ssl(), we copied any null-bytes that are contained in the field value. When using the option --verify-x509-name, this could lead to an incorrect name being accepted. For example, the common name "admin\0impersonator" would be accepted when running with --verify-x509-name admin name. Fixed by: https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/cf4384eef4676a01bd3ee98fa602f7b2af8079ea (v2.7.8)

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 openvpn 0:2.6.12-1.amzn2023.0.8
Amazon Linux · 2023 openvpn-debuginfo 0:2.6.12-1.amzn2023.0.8
Amazon Linux · 2023 openvpn-debugsource 0:2.6.12-1.amzn2023.0.8
Amazon Linux · 2023 openvpn-devel 0:2.6.12-1.amzn2023.0.8

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-84790.html