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Ubuntu: USN-5258-1 (CVE-2017-14727): WeeChat vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5258-1 (CVE-2017-14727): WeeChat vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/23/2017
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

logger.c in the logger plugin in WeeChat before 1.9.1 allows a crash via strftime date/time specifiers, because a buffer is not initialized.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-weechat
  • ubuntu-upgrade-weechat-core
  • ubuntu-upgrade-weechat-curses
  • ubuntu-upgrade-weechat-guile
  • ubuntu-upgrade-weechat-headless
  • ubuntu-upgrade-weechat-lua
  • ubuntu-upgrade-weechat-perl
  • ubuntu-upgrade-weechat-php
  • ubuntu-upgrade-weechat-plugins
  • ubuntu-upgrade-weechat-python
  • ubuntu-upgrade-weechat-ruby
  • ubuntu-upgrade-weechat-tcl

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