PT-2007-4249 · Kvirc · Kvirc

Published 2007-06-26 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-2951

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions KVIrc version 3.2.0

Description The issue allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an irc:// or irc6:// URI, due to a problem in the parseIrcUrl function.

Recommendations For version 3.2.0, consider disabling the parseIrcUrl function until a patch is available to prevent exploitation through irc:// or irc6:// URIs.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-2951

Affected Products

Kvirc

References · 15

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2951 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-2951 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2951 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-2951 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-56/advisory · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-02.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25740 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26813 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2334 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35087 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/37604 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/472441/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/24652 · Note
• https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/changeset/630/#file3 · Note