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kvirc: arbitrary command execution

Package(s):kvirc CVE #(s):CVE-2010-2785
Created:August 2, 2010 Updated:August 17, 2010
Description: From the Debian advisory:

It was discovered that incorrect parsing of CTCP commands in kvirc, a KDE-based IRC client, could lead to the execution of arbitrary IRC commands against other users.

Alerts:
SUSE SUSE-SR:2010:015 2010-08-17
Pardus 2010-115 2010-08-12
Fedora FEDORA-2010-11524 2010-07-30
Fedora FEDORA-2010-11506 2010-07-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2010:0459-1 2010-08-02
SUSE SUSE-SR:2010:014 2010-08-02
Debian DSA-2078-1 2010-07-31
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