CVE-2020-9760

NameCVE-2020-9760
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in WeeChat before 2.7.1 (0.3.4 to 2.7 are affected). When a new IRC message 005 is received with longer nick prefixes, a buffer overflow and possibly a crash can happen when a new mode is set for a nick.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2157-1, DLA-2770-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
weechat (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.0.1-1+deb8u4fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1.6-1+deb9u3fixed
buster2.3-1+deb10u1fixed
bullseye3.0-1+deb11u1fixed
bookworm3.8-1fixed
sid, trixie4.1.1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
weechatsourcewheezy(unfixed)end-of-life
weechatsourcejessie1.0.1-1+deb8u3DLA-2157-1
weechatsourcestretch1.6-1+deb9u3DLA-2770-1
weechatsourcebuster2.3-1+deb10u1
weechatsource(unstable)2.7.1-1

Notes

https://github.com/weechat/weechat/commit/694b5c9f874d7337cd2e03761e0de435275dd64d

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