Bug 1177580 (CVE-2014-9403) - CVE-2014-9403 znc: Crash while adding channels to the web admin
Summary: CVE-2014-9403 znc: Crash while adding channels to the web admin
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-9403
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2014-12-29 07:56 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-12-29 08:02:50 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-12-29 07:56:38 UTC
When a znc web administrator tried to add a channel, which already existed, via web admin interface, it would cause a crash if the channel name isn't prefixed with '#' (i.e you already have a channel '#potato' but you try to add 'potato' without the '#' prefix). 

This only appears to happen if the channel is already in the list and not if you are adding a new channel that isn't already in the list.

References:

Upstream bug: https://github.com/znc/znc/issues/528
Commit: https://github.com/znc/znc/commit/5e6e3be32acfeadeaf1fb3bb17bada08aec6432f

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-12-29 08:02:50 UTC
This security flaw has already been addressed in Fedora and EPEL via the following security advisories:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-5214/znc-1.2-3.fc19
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-5254/znc-1.2-3.fc20
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2014-1137/znc-1.2-3.el6
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2014-1119/znc-1.2-3.el5

Currently Fedora-19, Fedora-20, EPEL-5, EPEL-6 and EPEL-7 contain znc-1.4, which also contains a fix for this issue.


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