Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-02

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Severity: High
Title: ZNC: Privilege escalation
Date: March 06, 2009
Bugs: #260148
ID: 200903-02

Synopsis

A vulnerability in ZNC allows for privilege escalation.

Background

ZNC is an advanced IRC bouncer.

Affected packages

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1 net-irc/znc < 0.066 >= 0.066

Description

cnu discovered multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in ZNC's
webadmin module.

Impact

A remote authenticated attacker could modify the znc.conf configuration
file and gain privileges via newline characters in e.g. the QuitMessage
field, and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All ZNC users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/znc-0.066"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2009-0759
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0759

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-02.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

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