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FreeBSD : WeeChat -- Multiple vulnerabilities (8e3f1812-54d9-11ea-8d49-d4c9ef517024)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 133894

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The WeeChat project reports :

Buffer overflow when receiving a malformed IRC message 324 (channel mode). (CVE-2020-8955)

Buffer overflow when a new IRC message 005 is received with longer nick prefixes.

Crash when receiving a malformed IRC message 352 (WHO).

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?eba13c51

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 133894

File Name: freebsd_pkg_8e3f181254d911ea8d49d4c9ef517024.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 2/24/2020

Updated: 3/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8955

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:weechat, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8955