Gentoo GLSA 202310-01 Alert: KVIrc Security Vulnerability Exploitation Risk
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September 13, 2007
A vulnerability has been discovered in KVIrc, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200709-02
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: KVIrc: Remote arbitrary code execution
Date: September 13, 2007
Bugs: #183174
ID: 200709-02
Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been discovered in KVIrc, allowing for the remote
execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on Qt.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-irc/kvirc < 3.2.6_pre20070714 >= 3.2.6_pre20070714
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Stefan Cornelius from Secunia Research discovered that the
"parseIrcUrl()" function in file src/kvirc/kernel/kvi_ircurl.cpp does
not properly sanitise parts of the URI when building the comma...
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