IPFire Open Source Firewall Linux Distro Gets Huge Number of Security Fixes | Linux Today

IPFire Open Source Firewall Linux Distro Gets Huge Number of Security Fixes

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Marius Nestor
Jan 9, 2018

IPFire 2.19 Core Update 117 is now available to download and comes with the latest OpenSSL 1.0.2n TLS/SSL and crypto library, as well as an updated OpenVPN implementation that makes it easier to route OpenVPN Roadwarrior Clients to IPsec VPN networks by allowing users to choose routes in each client’s configuration. The update also improves the IPsec implementation by allowing users to define the inactivity timeout time of an idle IPsec VPN tunnel that’s being closed and updating the strongSwan IPsec-based VPN solution to version 5.6.1. It also disabled the compression by default and removed support for MODP groups with subgroups.

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Marius Nestor

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