CVE-2010-3438: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 12 only; version 13 only
• Libpoe-Component-Irc-Perl Project Libpoe-Component-Irc-Perl: before 6.32 (fixed in 6.32)

Published 2019-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.