glsa-200904-04.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200904-04">
  <title>WeeChat: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>
    A processing error in WeeChat might lead to a Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">weechat</product>
  <announced>2009-04-04</announced>
  <revised>2009-04-04: 01</revised>
  <bug>262997</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-irc/weechat" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.2.6.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.2.6.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) is a light and extensible
    console IRC client.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Sebastien Helleu reported an array out-of-bounds error in the colored
    message handling.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could send a specially crafted PRIVMSG command,
    possibly leading to a Denial of Service (application crash).
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All WeeChat users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-irc/weechat-0.2.6.1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0661">CVE-2009-0661</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-04-04T15:10:01Z">
    a3li
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-04-04T15:21:46Z">
    a3li
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-04-04T17:18:54Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
</glsa>