Advisories » MGASA-2020-0122

Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Mar 2020
Modification date: 06 Mar 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-8955

Description

Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability:

irc_mode_channel_update in plugins/irc/irc-mode.c in WeeChat through
2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer
overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other
impact via a malformed IRC message 324 (channel mode)(CVE-2020-8955).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26267
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2020-02/msg00095.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8955

SRPMS

7/core

• weechat-2.4-2.1.mga7