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TITLE:
POE::Component::IRC Message Splitting Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39767

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39767/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in POE::Component::IRC, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain
security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to the component not properly
filtering the carriage return character ("\r") in messages before
sending them to the IRC server, which can be exploited to e.g. inject
IRC commands.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 6.32.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.32.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/HINRIK/POE-Component-IRC-6.32/Changes

OTHER REFERENCES:
Debian Bug #581194:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581194

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