GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2017-190

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published June 28, 2017

It was discovered that weechat 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 (CVE-2017-8073).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	weechat	0 (affected), 0.4.1-7.1.mga5 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2017-8073

References

Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability

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