Bug 326149 (CVE-2010-2451)

Summary:	<net-irc/kvirc-4.0_pre4317: DCC Directory Traversal and Multiple Format String Vulnerabilities (CVE-2010-{2451,2452})
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) <ssuominen>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	arfrever, net-irc
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	B1 [glsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	278423
Bug Blocks:

Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-29 11:25:17 UTC

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40746

http://freshmeat.net/articles/debian-new-kvirc-packages-fix-several-vulnerabilities

"For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.0.0~svn4340+rc3-1."

This would imply that *at least* that our stable kvirc-4 is vulnerable.

Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-06 23:06:39 UTC

Security vulnerability was fixed in r4317.

r4227 introduced build failure with USE="dcc_video -kde", which was fixed in r4616.

Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-06 23:07:53 UTC

Stabilize net-irc/kvirc-4.1_pre4624.

Comment 3 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-07 08:33:10 UTC

x86 stable

Comment 4 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-10 22:57:39 UTC

amd64 done

Comment 5 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-26 16:08:42 UTC

CVE-2010-2451 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2451):
  Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the DCC functionality in
  KVIrc 3.4 and 4.0 have unspecified impact and remote attack vectors.

CVE-2010-2452 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2452):
  Directory traversal vulnerability in the DCC functionality in KVIrc
  3.4 and 4.0 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via
  unknown vectors.

Comment 6 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-08-01 13:36:13 UTC

GLSA request filed.

Comment 7 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2014-02-21 15:40:50 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201402-20 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201402-20.xml
by GLSA coordinator Chris Reffett (creffett).