Advisories ยป MGASA-2017-0190

Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 28 Jun 2017
Modification date: 28 Jun 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-8073

Description

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).
                

References

SRPMS

5/core