Bug 1629996 (CVE-2018-17019)

Summary:	CVE-2018-17019 bro: Improper IRC protocol names command parsing in analyzer/protocol/irc/IRC.cc
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-17 18:18:27 UTC

In Bro through 2.5.5, there is a DoS in IRC protocol names command parsing in analyzer/protocol/irc/IRC.cc.

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/bro/bro/commit/c2b18849f8bb833253538f5dfedb4ed1dc176a30

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-17 18:18:58 UTC

Created bro tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1629998]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1629997]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:38:13 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.