Ubuntu Security Update USN-8286-1: OpenVPN vulnerabilities

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Guannan Wang, Zhanpeng Liu, Guancheng Li, and Emma Reuter discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled suitably malformed packets with valid tls-crypt-v2 keys. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenVPN to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-35058) Guannan Wang, Zhanpeng Liu, and Guancheng Li discovered that OpenVPN had a race condition in the TLS handshake process that could leak packet data from a previous handshake under certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-40215)

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