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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1111-1 weechat -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

26 Sep 2017

Affected Packages:

weechat

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 876553.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-14727.

More information:

It was discovered that WeeChat's logger plugin is vulnerable to an invalid buffer read which can be exploited remotely to trigger an application crash or other undefined behaviour.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.8-1+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your weechat packages.

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