Vigil@nce - WeeChat: buffer overflow via Message 005
May 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 25/03/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a buffer overflow via Message 005 of
WeeChat, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to
run code.
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