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Ubuntu: USN-5258-1 (CVE-2021-40516): WeeChat vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5258-1 (CVE-2021-40516): WeeChat vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/05/2021
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

WeeChat before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted WebSocket frame that trigger an out-of-bounds read in plugins/relay/relay-websocket.c in the Relay plugin.

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

References

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