A vulnerability has been identified in KVIrc, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in the "parseIrcUrl()" [kernel/kvi_ircurl.cpp] function that does not properly validate "irc://" URIs when building the command for KVIrc's internal script system, which could be exploited by attackers to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands by tricking a user into following a malicious URI.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Stefan Cornelius (Secunia Research).
ChangeLog
2007-06-26 : Initial release
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