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Fedora 40: Critical NETWORKMANAGER-LIBRESWAN Update Available Now

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Calendar Grey October 31, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 40 updates have resolved a local privilege escalation flaw in NetworkManager-libreswan due to poor configuration file escaping; admins should apply the patch promptly
This is an update to 1.2.24 release of NetworkManager-libreswan, the IPSec VPN plugin for NetworkManager

Summary

This package contains software for integrating the libreswan VPN software

with NetworkManager and the GNOME desktop

Update Information:

This is an update to 1.2.24 release of NetworkManager-libreswan, the IPSec VPN plugin for NetworkManager. It fixes a local privilege escalation bug due to improper escaping of Libreswan configuration. (CVE-2024-9050)

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Topics Covered

security advisory local privilege escalation Fedora IPsec VPN NetworkManager important severity

Change Log

* Tue Oct 22 2024 Lubomir Rintel - 1.2.24-1 - Update to 1.2.24 release - Fixes a local privilege escalation bug with severity "important" (CVE-2024-9050)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2320956 - CVE-2024-9050 NetworkManager-libreswan: Local privilege escalation via leftupdown [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2320956

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-e88cc97dba' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: NetworkManager-libreswan
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.2.24
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-libreswan
Summary: NetworkManager VPN plug-in for IPsec VPN

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Topics Covered

security advisory local privilege escalation Fedora IPsec VPN NetworkManager important severity

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