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SUSE: CVE-2017-8073: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-8073: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/02/2017
Modified
03/06/2021

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, with a buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-weechat
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-aspell
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-aspell-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-debugsource
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-devel
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-doc
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-guile
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-guile-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-lang
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-lua
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-lua-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-perl
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-perl-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-python
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-python-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-ruby
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-ruby-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-tcl
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-tcl-debuginfo

References

  • DLA-919-1
  • DSA-3836
  • CVE-2017-8073

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