gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-202003-51.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202003-51">
  <title>WeeChat: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in WeeChat, the worst of
    which could allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">weechat</product>
  <announced>2020-03-25</announced>
  <revised count="1">2020-03-25</revised>
  <bug>709452</bug>
  <bug>714086</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-irc/weechat" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.7.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.7.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) is a light and extensible
      console IRC client.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in WeeChat. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>A remote attacker, by sending a specially crafted IRC message, could
      possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.
    </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-2.7.1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8955">CVE-2020-8955</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9759">CVE-2020-9759</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9760">CVE-2020-9760</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-03-25T16:00:28Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-03-25T16:04:22Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>