Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Remove the support for using system() when executing external programs or scripts

2012-10-31 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 08:35:52PM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: > From: David Sommerseth > > This patch removes the support for the system() call, and enforces the usage > of execve() ACK. (Did not test it, but reviewed the code. Relying on Samuli's test results for "how to run scripts

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Remove the support for using system() when executing external programs or scripts

2012-10-31 Thread David Sommerseth
On 29/10/12 20:35, David Sommerseth wrote: > From: David Sommerseth > > This patch removes the support for the system() call, and enforces the usage > of execve() > on the *nix platform and CreateProcessW() on Windows. This is to enhance the > overall > security when calling external scripts.

[Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN 2.3_rc1 released

2012-10-31 Thread Samuli Seppänen
The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.3_rc1. It can be downloaded from here: This release fixes a number of small issues. It also removes support for the "system" method for the "script-security" option, which re