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openSUSE: 2024:0203-1 Critical: znc Remote Code Execution Advisory

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Calendar Grey August 23, 2024
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Security patch released for znc: urgent remedy for remote code execution vulnerabilities on openSUSE, advisory identification openSUSE-SU-2024:0203-1.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for znc fixes the following issues:

Update to 1.9.1 (boo#1227393, CVE-2024-39844)

* This is a security release to fix CVE-2024-39844: remote code

execution vulnerability in modtcl. To mitigate this for existing

installations, simply unload the modtcl module for every user, if it's

loaded. Note that only users with admin rights can load modtcl at all.

* Improve tooltips in webadmin.

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:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP6:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2024-203=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP6 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

znc-1.9.1-bp156.2.3.1

znc-devel-1.9.1-bp156.2.3.1

znc-perl-1.9.1-bp156.2.3.1

znc-python3-1.9.1-bp156.2.3.1

znc-tcl-1.9.1-bp156.2.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP6 (noarch):

znc-lang-1.9.1-bp156.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-39844.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1227393

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2024:0203-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP6 .

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