CVE-2010-2785

The IRC Protocol component in KVIrc 3.x and 4.x before r4693 does not properly handle \ (backslash) characters, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary CTCP commands via vectors involving \r and \40 sequences, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2451 and CVE-2010-2452.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2010-08-02

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Kvirc (Kvirc)

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330111
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044625.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044643.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128041011428629&w=2
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/28/1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40727
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40796
• http://www.osvdb.org/66648
• https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/changeset/4693
• https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/ticket/858