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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/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 count="01">2009-04-04</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>