CVE-2020-9760

critical

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.

References

https://weechat.org/doc/security/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-51

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00018.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00031.html

https://github.com/weechat/weechat/commit/40ccacb4330a64802b1f1e28ed9a6b6d3ca9197f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-03-23

Updated: 2022-04-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

Detections

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