CVE-2019-9917 - Invalid encoding crash

Bug #1821760 reported by Thomas Ward
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Bug Description

Hello.

ZNC is affected by CVE-2019-9917, in which the use of an invalid encoding can cause a crash.

This is fixed upstream in the following code commit:
https://github.com/znc/znc/commit/64613bc8b6b4adf1e32231f9844d99cd512b8973

This has not yet been released into a stable ZNC version, but the fix is made available in Debian as 1.7.2-2.

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Changed in znc (Ubuntu Disco):
status: New → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package znc - 1.7.1-2ubuntu0.1

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znc (1.7.1-2ubuntu0.1) cosmic-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Fix DoS while using an invalid encoding (LP: #1821760)
    - debian/patches/CVE-2019-9917.patch: Don't crash if user specified invalid
      encoding.
    - CVE-2019-9917

 -- Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <email address hidden> Mon, 08 Apr 2019 10:56:22 -0300

Changed in znc (Ubuntu Cosmic):
status: New → Fix Released
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