CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-5854
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-11-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• flashtux weechat 0.3.6
• flashtux weechat 0.3.7
• flashtux weechat 0.3.8
• flashtux weechat 0.3.9
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092228.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092490.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092536.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00018.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00087.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://osvdb.org/87279 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51377 secunia.com
- http://weechat.org/security/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:136 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/12/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56482 www.securityfocus.com
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37704 savannah.nongnu.org
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0330 wiki.mageia.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092228.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092490.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092536.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00018.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00087.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://osvdb.org/87279 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51377 secunia.com
- http://weechat.org/security/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:136 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/12/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56482 www.securityfocus.com
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37704 savannah.nongnu.org
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0330 wiki.mageia.org