Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1744-1 weechat -- missing input sanitization
- Date Reported:
- 18 Mar 2009
- Affected Packages:
- weechat
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 519940.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 34148.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0661. - More information:
-
Sebastien Helleu discovered that an error in the handling of color codes in the weechat IRC client could cause an out-of-bounds read of an internal color array. This can be used by an attacker to crash user clients via a crafted PRIVMSG command.
The weechat version in the oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.6-1+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.6.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your weechat packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat_0.2.6.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat_0.2.6-1+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat_0.2.6-1+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat_0.2.6-1+lenny1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat_0.2.6-1+lenny1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-common_0.2.6-1+lenny1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-common_0.2.6-1+lenny1_all.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_arm.deb
- :
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_armel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_armel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-curses_0.2.6-1+lenny1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weechat/weechat-plugins_0.2.6-1+lenny1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.