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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2018-e603289e79
2018-07-26 12:45:05.654417
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Name : NetworkManager-vpnc
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 1.2.6
Release : 1.el7
URL :
http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
Summary : NetworkManager VPN plugin for vpnc
Description :
This package contains software for integrating VPN capabilities with
the vpnc server with NetworkManager.
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Update Information:
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
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References:
[ 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
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update NetworkManager-vpnc' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/...
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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