Published: 19/03/2009 Updated: 17/08/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) 0.2.6 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IRC PRIVMSG command containing crafted color codes that trigger an out-of-bounds read.

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flashtux weechat 0.2.6

Sebastien Helleu discovered that an error in the handling of color codes in the weechat IRC client could cause an out-of-bounds read of an internal color array This can be used by an attacker to crash user clients via a crafted PRIVMSG command The weechat version in the oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected by this problem For the stable ...

CWE-20 http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?25862 http://weechat.flashtux.org/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34148 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519940 http://secunia.com/advisories/34304 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/17/8 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1744 http://secunia.com/advisories/34328 http://osvdb.org/52763 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0758 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49295 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-1744

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