CVE-2020-8955

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-8955
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-02-12 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:26:00 UTC
Descriptionirc_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).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-120

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Application Opensuse Backports Sle 15.0 - All All
Application Opensuse Backports Sle 15.0 sp1 All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Application Weechat Weechat All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
irc: fix crash when receiving a malformed message 324 (channel mode) · weechat/weechat@6f4f147 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: weechat-2.7.1-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2157-1] weechat security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: weechat-2.7.1-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: weechat-2.7.1-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: weechat-2.7.1-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2770-1] weechat security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: weechat-2.7.1-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
WeeChat: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202003-51) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: weechat-2.7.1-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0248-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
WeeChat :: documentation :: security MISC weechat.org Vendor Advisory
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178850 Debian Security Update for weechat (DLA 2770-1)
  • 501296 Alpine Linux Security Update for weechat
  • 505533 Alpine Linux Security Update for weechat
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