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SUSE: CVE-2020-8955: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2020-8955: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/12/2020
Created
03/05/2020
Added
03/03/2020
Modified
10/22/2021

Description

irc_mode_channel_update in plugins/irc/irc-mode.c in WeeChat through 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed IRC message 324 (channel mode).

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-weechat
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-aspell
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-devel
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-guile
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-lang
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-lua
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-perl
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-python
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-ruby
  • suse-upgrade-weechat-tcl

References

  • CVE-2020-8955

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