Out-of-Bounds Affecting weechat package, versions [,1.9.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WEECHAT-2368586
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14727  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade weechat to version 1.9.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds 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.

CVSS Scores

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