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Debian DLA-2157-1 : weechat security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 134881

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several issues have been found in weechat, a fast, light and extensible chat client. All issues are about crafted messages, that could result in a buffer overflow and application crash. This could cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1-1+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your weechat packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

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

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/weechat

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 134881

File Name: debian_DLA-2157.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2020

Updated: 3/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-9759

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-9760

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:weechat-curses, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:weechat-core, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:weechat-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:weechat-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:weechat, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:weechat-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:weechat-plugins

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8955, CVE-2020-9759, CVE-2020-9760