[UNIX] Multiple Vulnerabilities in Konversation

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Date: 01/23/05

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      Multiple Vulnerabilities in Konversation
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    SUMMARY

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Konversation, an IRC
    client for KDE.

    A flaw in the expansion of %-escaped variables makes that %-escaped
    variables in certain input strings will be inadvertently expanded too. The
    Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned
    the name CAN-2005-0129 to this issue.

    Several perl scripts included with Konversation fail to properly handle
    command line arguments causing a command line injection vulnerability. The
    Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned
    the name CAN-2005-0130 to this issue.

    Nick and password are confused in the quick connection dialog, so
    connecting with that dialog and filling in a password, would use that
    password as nick, and may inadvertently expose the password to others. The
    Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned
    the name CAN-2005-0131 to this issue.

    DETAILS

    Vulnerable Systems:
     * Konversation versions up to and including 0.15

    Immune Systems:
     * Konversation version 0.15.1 or newer

    Impact:
    A user might be tricked to join a channel with a specially crafted channel
    name containing shell commands. If user runs a script in that channel it
    will result in an arbitrary command execution.

    If quick connect is used with a password, the password is used as nickname
    instead. As a result the password may be exposed to others.

    Patch:
    A patch for Konversation 0.15 is available from
    <ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches>
    ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches

    CVE Information:
     <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0129>
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0129
     <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0130>
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0130
     <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0131>
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0131

    Time line and credits:
    18/01/2005 Konversation developers informed by Wouter Coekaerts
    19/01/2005 Patches applied to KDE CVS
    19/01/2005 Konversation 0.15.1 released
    21/01/2005 KDE Security Advisory released

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    The information has been provided by <mailto:bastian@kde.org> Waldo
    Bastian.

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