OpenVPN 2.7.8 Released with Security and Bug Fixes, Various Improvements

Posted by hanuca on Oct 8, 2026 3:06 AM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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The OpenVPN project released OpenVPN 2.7.8 today as the eighth maintenance update to the latest OpenVPN 2.7 series of this open-source software for connecting to virtual private networks (VPN).

Coming a month after OpenVPN 2.7.7, the OpenVPN 2.7.8 release makes certificate validation stricter regarding NULL bytes in strings, which might break existing installations if such certificates exist and OpenSSL builds are used, and updates the OpenSSL builds to use the last field when handling certificates with duplicate fields.

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