PT-2018-13839 · Bro · Bro

Published 2018-09-13 · Updated 2018-11-21 · CVE-2018-17019

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Bro versions through 2.5.5

Description The issue is related to a denial of service (DoS) in the IRC protocol names command parsing. This occurs in the analyzer/protocol/irc/IRC.cc component.

Recommendations For Bro versions through 2.5.5, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-17019

Affected Products

Bro

References · 6

• https://github.com/bro/bro/commit/c2b18849f8bb833253538f5dfedb4ed1dc176a30 · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17019 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17019 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17019 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17019 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17019 · Vendor Advisory