Out-of-Bounds Affecting weechat package, versions [0.3.6,0.3.9]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
12.4% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WEECHAT-2368593
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Nov 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-5854  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for weechat.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Heap-based buffer overflow in WeeChat 0.3.6 through 0.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted IRC colors that are not properly decoded.

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