DSA-3836-1 weechat -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3836-1 weechat -- security update

Date Reported:

27 Apr 2017

Affected Packages:

weechat

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 861121.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-8073.

More information:

It was discovered that weechat, a fast and light chat client, is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability in the IRC plugin, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service by sending a specially crafted filename via DCC.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your weechat packages.