Bug 20788

Summary:	CVE-2009-0661 WeeChat IRC Message Denial of Service
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Vladimir Lettiev <crux>
Component:	weechat	Assignee:	Alexey Gladkov <legion>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3	CC:	legion, php-coder, vvk
Version:	unstable	Keywords:	security
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://secunia.com/advisories/34304/

Description Vladimir Lettiev 2009-07-15 15:59:28 MSD

A vulnerability has been reported in WeeChat, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the then handling of IRC messages containing certain color codes. This can be exploited to crash the application by sending specially crafted messages to a vulnerable client.

Fixed in version >= 0.2.6.1

Comment 1 Konstantin Pavlov 2009-07-15 16:05:31 MSD

$ ssh git.alt acl sisyphus weechat show
weechat @nobody

Comment 2 Slava Semushin 2011-01-29 19:45:57 MSK

В Сизифе 0.3.4