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Fedora 27 NetworkManager-vpnc Vulnerability: Critical Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch for NetworkManager VPN Component on Fedora 27 resolves privilege elevation vulnerability present in version 1.2.6.
Update to 1.2.6 to fix a local authenticated privilege escalation bug (CVE-2018-10900)

Summary

This package contains software for integrating VPN capabilities with

the vpnc server with NetworkManager.

Update to 1.2.6 to fix a local authenticated privilege escalation bug

(CVE-2018-10900). The issue has been discovered and responsibly disclosed by

Denis Andzakovic: https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc

* Fri Jul 20 2018 Lubomir Rintel - 1.2.6-1

- Update to 1.2.6 release

- Fix a local authenticated privilege escalation bug (CVE-2018-10900)

* Thu Jul 12 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:1.2.4-8

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Feb 7 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:1.2.4-7

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Jan 31 2018 Igor Gnatenko - 1:1.2.4-6

- Remove obsolete scriptlets

* Thu Nov 30 2017 Lubomir Rintel - 1.2.4-5

- Drop libnm-glib for Fedora 28

[ 1 ] Bug #1605919 - CVE-2018-10900 NetworkManager-vpnc: privilege escalation allows to execute arbitrary commands as root

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1605919

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-ac02463f82' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 1.2.6
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: NetworkManager VPN plugin for vpnc

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