First published: Tue Nov 12 2019(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Libpoe-component-irc-perl Project Libpoe-component-irc-perl | <6.32 | |
Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 | |
Debian Debian Linux | =9.0 | |
Debian Debian Linux | =10.0 | |
Fedoraproject Fedora | =13 | |
Fedoraproject Fedora | =12 | |
debian/libpoe-component-irc-perl | 6.90+dfsg-1 6.93+dfsg-1 |
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