Out-of-Bounds Affecting weechat package, versions [,1.7.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.88% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WEECHAT-2368591
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-8073  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade weechat to version 1.7.1 or higher.

Overview

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

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