CVE-2021-40516

high

Description

WeeChat before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted WebSocket frame that trigger an out-of-bounds read in plugins/relay/relay-websocket.c in the Relay plugin.

References

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

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

https://github.com/weechat/weechat/commit/8b1331f98de1714bae15a9ca2e2b393ba49d735b

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-09-05

Updated: 2021-10-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High