Bug 1629996 (CVE-2018-17019) - CVE-2018-17019 bro: Improper IRC protocol names command parsing in analyzer/protocol/irc/IRC.cc
Summary: CVE-2018-17019 bro: Improper IRC protocol names command parsing in analyzer/p...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2018-17019
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1629997 1629998
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-09-17 18:18 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:38:13 UTC
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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.
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