Bug 1500077 (CVE-2017-14727)

Summary:	CVE-2017-14727 weechat: Uninitialized buffer used in logger plugin
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	gchamoul, i, karlthered, niveusluna, peter.borsa
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1500078
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-10-09 20:00:57 UTC

Date/time conversion specifiers are expanded after replacing buffer local variables in name of log files. In some cases, this can lead to an error in function strftime and a crash caused by the use of an uninitialized buffer. 

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/weechat/weechat/commit/f105c6f0b56fb5687b2d2aedf37cb1d1b434d556

References:

https://weechat.org/news/98/20170923-Version-1.9.1-security-release/
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060140

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-10-09 20:01:30 UTC

Created weechat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1500078]