metadata/glsa/glsa-200709-02.xml

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<glsa id="200709-02">
  <title>KVIrc: Remote arbitrary code execution</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been discovered in KVIrc, allowing for the remote
    execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">kvirc</product>
  <announced>September 13, 2007</announced>
  <revised>September 13, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>183174</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-irc/kvirc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.2.6_pre20070714</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.2.6_pre20070714</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on Qt.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    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 command for
    KVIrc's internal script system.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted
    irc:// URI, possibly leading to the remote execution of arbitrary code
    with the privileges of the user running KVIrc. Successful exploitation
    requires that KVIrc is registered as the default handler for irc:// or
    similar URIs.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All KVIrc users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-irc/kvirc-3.2.6_pre20070714&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2951">CVE-2007-2951</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:12:16 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:59:16 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:26:17 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>