Bug 490709 (CVE-2009-0661)
| Summary: | CVE-2009-0661 WeeChat: DoS (crash) when receiving special characters in IRC messages | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | i, vdanen |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://weechat.flashtux.org/download.php | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-05-31 14:15:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Jan Lieskovsky
2009-03-17 17:57:30 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-0661 to the following vulnerability: Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) 0.2.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted IRC message that contains unspecified "special chars." References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0661 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519940 http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?25862 http://weechat.flashtux.org/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34148 http://secunia.com/advisories/34304 I am about to push the update weechat-0.2.6.1-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/weechat-0.2.6.1-1.fc9 weechat-0.2.6.1-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/weechat-0.2.6.1-1.fc10 weechat-0.2.6.1-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. weechat-0.2.6.1-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |