Summary
The remote host is missing an update to weechat
announced via advisory DSA 1744-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201744-1
Insight
Sebastien Helleu discovered that an error in the handling of color codes in the weechat IRC client could cause an out-of-bounds read of an internal color array. This can be used by an attacker to crash user clients via a crafted PRIVMSG command.
The weechat version in the oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.6-1+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.6.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your weechat packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-0661 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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