Bug 1848414 (CVE-2020-14148)

Summary:	CVE-2020-14148 nigircd: Server-Server protocol implementation leads to out-of-bounds access
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-06-18 10:45:30 UTC

The Server-Server protocol implementation in ngIRCd before 26~rc2 allows an out-of-bounds access, as demonstrated by the IRC_NJOIN() function.

References:
https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues/274
https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues/277
https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/pull/275
https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/pull/276
https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/releases/tag/rel-26-rc2

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-06-18 10:47:43 UTC

Created ngircd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1848416]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1848415]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-06-18 11:20:33 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.