CVE-2010-2785

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    CVE-2010-2785

    Published: 2 Aug 2010Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The IRC Protocol component in KVIrc 3.x and 4.x before r4693 does not properly handle \ (backslash) characters, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary CTCP commands via vectors involving \r and \40 sequences, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2451 and CVE-2010-2452.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/40727, http://secunia.com/advisories/40796, http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128041011428629&w=2, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/28/1, https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/changeset/4693, https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/ticket/858, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330111, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044625.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044643.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html, http://www.osvdb.org/66648

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High