DSA-2598-1 weechat -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2598-1 weechat -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

05 Jan 2013

Affected Packages:

weechat

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-1428, CVE-2012-5534.

More information:

Two security issues have been discovered in WeeChat, a fast, light and extensible chat client:

• CVE-2011-1428

  X.509 certificates were incorrectly validated.

• CVE-2012-5534

  The hook_process function in the plugin API allowed the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.2-1+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.8-1+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.9.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your weechat packages.