weechat: CVE-2020-8955

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-8955  

Debian Bug report logs - #951289
weechat: CVE-2020-8955

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Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 21:42:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security, upstream

Found in version weechat/2.6-2

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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: weechat: CVE-2020-8955
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 22:39:20 +0100
Source: weechat
Version: 2.6-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for weechat.

CVE-2020-8955[0]:
| irc_mode_channel_update in plugins/irc/irc-mode.c in WeeChat through
| 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer
| overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other
| impact via a malformed IRC message 324 (channel mode).


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8955
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8955
[1] https://github.com/weechat/weechat/commit/6f4f147d8e86adf9ad34a8ffd7e7f1f23a7e74da

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore



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