CVE-2010-2785 Information

Description

The IRC Protocol component in KVIrc 3.x and 4.x before r4693 does not properly handle \ (backslash) characters which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary CTCP commands via vectors involving \r and \40 sequences a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2451 and CVE-2010-2452.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330111 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044625.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044643.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128041011428629&w=2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/28/1 http://secunia.com/advisories/40727 http://secunia.com/advisories/40796 http://www.osvdb.org/66648 https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/changeset/4693 https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/ticket/858