CVE-2018-14055: privilege escalation in ZNC

[Alexey Sokolov <alexey+znc () asokolov org>]

Severity: high

Versions affected:
1.6.0 through 1.7.0
Potentially, all earlier versions too, but there is no known way to
trigger this before 1.6.0

Mitigation:
upgrade to 1.7.1

Description:
ZNC before 1.7.1-rc1 does not properly validate untrusted lines coming
from the network, allowing a non-admin user to escalate privilege,
inject rogue values into znc.conf, and gain shell access.

Upstream patches:
https://github.com/znc/znc/commit/a7bfbd93812950b7444841431e8e297e62cb524e
https://github.com/znc/znc/commit/d22fef8620cdd87490754f607e7153979731c69d

Reported by: Jeriko One <jeriko.one () gmx us>

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Best regards,
Alexey "DarthGandalf" Sokolov