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weechat — security advisory
An 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.
- Products
- weechat
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.7.1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-9760
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An 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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-9760
weechat
Fixed versions: 2.7.1-1
weechat
Fixed versions: 2.7.1-1
weechat
Fixed versions: 2.7.1-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 452395,
"published_at": "2020-03-23T16:15:17.923+00:00"
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