<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200904-04"> <title>WeeChat: Denial of Service</title> <synopsis> A processing error in WeeChat might lead to a Denial of Service. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">weechat</product> <announced>2009-04-04</announced> <revised count="01">2009-04-04</revised> <bug>262997</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-irc/weechat" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.2.6.1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.2.6.1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) is a light and extensible console IRC client. </p> </background> <description> <p> Sebastien Helleu reported an array out-of-bounds error in the colored message handling. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could send a specially crafted PRIVMSG command, possibly leading to a Denial of Service (application crash). </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All WeeChat users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/weechat-0.2.6.1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0661">CVE-2009-0661</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-04-04T15:10:01Z"> a3li </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-04-04T15:21:46Z"> a3li </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-04-04T17:18:54Z"> keytoaster </metadata> </glsa>