CVE-2017-8073

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-04-23

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Weechat (Weechat)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3836
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97987
• https://github.com/weechat/weechat/commit/2fb346f25f79e412cf0ed314fdf791763c19b70b
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4ASRTCQFFDAAK347URWNDH…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ER23GT23US5JXDLUZAMGMW…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M3LAJTLI3LWZRNCFYJ7PCB…
• https://weechat.org/download/security/
• https://weechat.org/news/95/20170422-Version-1.7.1/