CVE-2010-3438

libpoe-component-irc-perl before v6.32 does not remove carriage returns and line feeds. This can be used to execute arbitrary IRC commands by passing an argument such as "some text\rQUIT" to the 'privmsg' handler, which would cause the client to disconnect from the server.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-11-12

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-134

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Libpoe-component-irc-perl (Libpoe-component-irc-perl)
• Libpoe-component-irc-perl (Libpoe-component-irc-perl Project)

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581194
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-3438
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3438