vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2017-8073)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 23, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

WeeChat before 1.7.1 allows a remote crash by sending a filename via DCC to the IRC plugin. This occurs in the irc_ctcp_dcc_filename_without_quotes function during quote removal, which results in a buffer overflow.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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