CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-9760
9.8 CRITICAL
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-03-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
An issue was discovered in WeeChat before 2.7.1 (0.3.4 to 2.7 are affected). When a new IRC message 005 is received with longer nick prefixes, a buffer overflow and possibly a crash can happen when a new mode is set for a nick.
Affected configurations
• weechat weechat (>= 0.3.4 < 2.7.1)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://github.com/weechat/weechat/commit/40ccacb4330a64802b1f1e28ed9a6b6d3ca9197f Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00031.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00018.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-51 Third Party Advisory
- https://weechat.org/doc/security/ Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/weechat/weechat/commit/40ccacb4330a64802b1f1e28ed9a6b6d3ca9197f Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00031.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00018.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-51 Third Party Advisory
- https://weechat.org/doc/security/ Vendor Advisory