Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in ZNC, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
ZNC DCC Send Directory Traversal Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35916
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35916/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in ZNC, which can be exploited by
malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an input sanitation error when
processing DCC Send commands. This can be exploited to upload files
to arbitrary locations via directory traversal attacks.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code by e.g.
uploading a malicious ZNC module.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.072.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.072.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://en.znc.in/wiki/ChangeLog/0.072
http://znc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/znc?view=rev&sortby=rev&sortdir=down&revision=1570
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