USN-5258-1: WeeChat vulnerabilities

4 February 2022

Several security issues were fixed in WeeChat.

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Releases

Packages

  • weechat - Fast, light and extensible chat client (metapackage)

Details

Stuart Nevans Locke discovered that WeeChat's relay plugin insecurely handled
malformed websocket frames. A remote attacker in control of a server
could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service in a client.
(CVE-2021-40516)

Stuart Nevans Locke discovered that WeeChat insecurely handled certain
IRC messages. A remote attacker in control of a server could possibly use
this issue to cause denial of service in a client. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-9760)

Stuart Nevans Locke discovered that WeeChat insecurely handled certain
IRC messages. A remote unauthenticated attacker could possibly use these
issues to cause denial of service in a client. These issues only affected
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-9759, CVE-2020-8955)

Joseph Bisch discovered that WeeChat's logger incorrectly handled certain
memory operations when handling log file names. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause denial of service in a client. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-14727)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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