A vulnerability was reported [1] to Debian for POE::Component::IRC, where it did not remove carriage returns and line feeds. This affects tools or IRC bots using the perl module, and can be used to execute arbitrary IRC commands by passing an argument such as "some text\rQUIT" to the 'privmsg' handler, which would cause the client to disconnect from the server. Upstream has fixed [2],[3],[4] the issue and it is included in the current 6.32 release. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581194 [2] http://github.com/bingos/poe-component-irc/commit/4f46c29376359b3d7c5b5cd400115103fdef9ca8 [3] http://github.com/bingos/poe-component-irc/commit/675f55cd40ceebbc1bd2f309311a066bed41d869 [4] http://github.com/bingos/poe-component-irc/commit/9e2a01af6a908f9c1c97431bcbc5f483a7a99e2f
Created perl-POE-Component-IRC tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 591216]
perl-POE-Component-IRC-6.14-2.fc13.1 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-POE-Component-IRC-6.14-2.fc13.1
perl-POE-Component-IRC-6.14-1.fc12.1 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-POE-Component-IRC-6.14-1.fc12.1
perl-POE-Component-IRC-6.14-1.fc12.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
perl-POE-Component-IRC-6.14-2.fc13.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
This is fixed in all supported versions of Fedora.
*** Bug 663801 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is CVE-2010-3438.