PT-2009-3302 · Weechat · Weechat

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2009-03-19 · Updated 2017-08-17 · CVE-2009-0661

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) version 0.2.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash. This is achieved by sending an IRC PRIVMSG command that contains crafted color codes, which trigger an out-of-bounds read.

Recommendations For WeeChat version 0.2.6, consider disabling the handling of color codes in IRC PRIVMSG commands as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-0661

DSA-1744-1

Affected Products

Weechat

References · 15

• http://secunia.com/advisories/34328 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0661 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0661 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-0661 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1744 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0758 · Vendor Advisory
• http://weechat.flashtux.org · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-0661 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34304 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/34148 · Patch
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49295 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519940 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/52763 · Note
• http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?25862 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/17/8 · Note