CVE-2009-0661

N/A Unknown

Published: March 19, 2009 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) 0.2.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IRC PRIVMSG command containing crafted color codes that trigger an out-of-bounds read.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519940

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://osvdb.org/52763

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?25862

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/34304

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/34328

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://weechat.flashtux.org/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1744

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/17/8

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34148

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0758

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49295

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519940