CVE-2008-4748

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CVE-2008-4748

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CVE-2008-4748 at MITRE

Description

Format string vulnerability in the URI handler in KVirc 3.4.0, when set as the default application for processing IRC URIs, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the irc:// URI.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.6
Vector	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 439819 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	kvirc >= 5.0.0-4.3	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10906

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 18:31:15 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 20:53:47 2024