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Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability
It was discovered that weechat is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability in the IRC plugin, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service by sending a specially crafted filename via DCC CVE-2017-8073...
WeeChat 'irc_ctcp_dcc_filename_without_quotes' function buffer overflow vulnerability
WeeChat Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat is an efficient lightweight IRC chat client. A security vulnerability exists in the 'ircctcpdccfilenamewithoutquotes' function in WeeChat versions prior to 1.7.1. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service crash by sendi...