CVE-2021-40516

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-40516
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-05 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-10-07 17:55:00 UTC
DescriptionWeeChat before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted WebSocket frame that trigger an out-of-bounds read in plugins/relay/relay-websocket.c in the Relay plugin.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Weechat Weechat All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 2770-1] weechat security update MLIST lists.debian.org
relay: fix crash when decoding a malformed websocket frame · weechat/weechat@8b1331f · GitHub MISC github.com
WeeChat :: documentation :: security MISC weechat.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178850 Debian Security Update for weechat (DLA 2770-1)
  • 180026 Debian Security Update for weechat (CVE-2021-40516)
  • 502200 Alpine Linux Security Update for weechat
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