CVE-2007-2951 Information

Description

The parseIrcUrl function in src/kvirc/kernel/kvi_ircurl.cpp in KVIrc 3.2.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an (1) irc:// or (2) irc6:// URI.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/37604 http://secunia.com/advisories/25740 http://secunia.com/advisories/26813 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-56/advisory/ http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-02.xml http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472441/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24652 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2334 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35087 kvirc-parseircurl-command-execution(35087) https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/changeset/630/file3 The parseIrcUrl function in src/kvirc/kernel/kvi_ircurl.cpp in KVIrc 3.2.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an (1) irc:// or (2) irc6:// URI.