[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#904255: network-manager-vpnc: CVE-2018-10900: privilege escalation

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: network-manager-vpnc
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: grave
Tags: patch security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for network-manager-vpnc.

CVE-2018-10900[0]:
local privilege escalation

A user with enough privileges to create the vpnc connection entry
(group netdev for instance), can use the flaw in network-manager-vpnc
to escalate privileges.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10900
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10900
[1] https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc

Update for stretch is already in preparation.

Regards,
Salvatore