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openSUSE 12: 2018:2228-1 Moderate: ZNC Path Traversal and Admin Issue

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Calendar Grey August 7, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Revision for znc portals rectifies notable security lapses such as directory traversal and elevation of privileges, boosting overall stability.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for znc fixes the following issues:

- Update to version 1.7.1

* CVE-2018-14055: non-admin user could gain admin privileges and shell

access by injecting values into znc.conf (bnc#1101281)

* CVE-2018-14056: path traversal in HTTP handler via ../ in a web skin

name. (bnc#1101280)

- Update to version 1.7.0

* Make ZNC UI translateable to different languages

* Configs written before ZNC 0.206 can't be read anymore

* Implement IRCv3.2 capabilities away-notify, account-notify,

extended-join

* Implement IRCv3.2 capabilities echo-message, cap-notify on the "client

side"

* Update capability names as they are named in IRCv3.2:

znc.in/server-time-iso?server-time, znc.in/batch?batch. Old names

will continue working for a while, then will be removed in some future

version.

* Make ZNC request server-time from server when available

* Add "AuthOnlyViaModule" global/user setting

*...

Read the Full Advisory

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-819=1

Package List

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

znc-1.7.1-2.1

znc-devel-1.7.1-2.1

znc-perl-1.7.1-2.1

znc-python3-1.7.1-2.1

znc-tcl-1.7.1-2.1

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (noarch):

znc-lang-1.7.1-2.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14055.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14056.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1101280

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1101281

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2228-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

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