CVE-2010-3438 Command injection in libpoe-component-irc-perl

What is CVE-2010-3438?

CVE-2010-3438 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 12 Nov 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

libpoe-component-irc-perl before v6.32 does not remove carriage returns and line feeds. This can be used to execute arbitrary IRC commands by passing an argument such as "some text\rQUIT" to the 'privmsg' handler, which would cause the client to disconnect from the server.

Weakness: CWE-134

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-3438?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Libpoe-Component-Irc-Perl Project Libpoe-Component-Irc-Perl.

How do I fix CVE-2010-3438?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2010-3438 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-3438 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3438, GHSA-vqr8-85pj-78rw.