Advisories » MGASA-2020-0153

Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 02 Apr 2020
Modification date: 02 Apr 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-9759 , CVE-2020-9760

Description

Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerabilities:

An issue was discovered in WeeChat before 2.7.1 (0.4.0 to 2.7 are
affected). A malformed message 352 (who) can cause a NULL pointer
dereference in the callback function, resulting in a crash
(CVE-2020-9759).

An issue was discovered in WeeChat before 2.7.1 (0.3.4 to 2.7 are
affected). When a new IRC message 005 is received with longer nick
prefixes, a buffer overflow and possibly a crash can happen when a 
new mode is set for a nick (CVE-2020-9760).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26400
• https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2020/dla-2157
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-9759
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-9760

SRPMS

7/core

• weechat-2.7.1-1.mga7