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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200501-34.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200501-34">
<title>Konversation: Various vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>
Konversation contains multiple vulnerabilities that could lead to remote
command execution or information leaks.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">konversation</product>
<announced>January 24, 2005</announced>
<revised>January 24, 2005: 01</revised>
<bug>78712</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-irc/konversation" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.15.1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.15.1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Konversation is a user-friendly IRC client for KDE.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Wouter Coekaerts has discovered three vulnerabilities within
Konversation:
</p>
<ul>
<li>The Server::parseWildcards function, which
is used by the "Quick Buttons", does not properly handle variable
expansion (CAN-2005-0129).</li>
<li>Perl scripts included with
Konversation do not properly escape shell metacharacters
(CAN-2005-0130).</li>
<li>The 'Nick' and 'Password' fields in the Quick
Connect dialog can be easily confused (CAN-2005-0131).</li>
</ul>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A malicious server could create specially-crafted channels, which
would exploit certain flaws in Konversation, potentially leading to the
execution of shell commands. A user could also unintentionally input
their password into the 'Nick' field in the Quick Connect dialog,
exposing his password to IRC users, and log files.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Konversation users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-irc/konversation-0.15.1&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0129">CAN-2005-0129</uri>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0130">CAN-2005-0130</uri>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0131">CAN-2005-0131</uri>
<uri link="http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050121-1.txt">KDE Security Advisory: Multiple vulnerabilities in Konversation</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:25:33 +0000">
jaervosz
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:24:15 +0000">
koon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:39:45 +0000">
lewk
</metadata>
</glsa>