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Security vulnerabilities

This table contains a list of all known and fixed security vulnerabilities in WeeChat stable releases (the security vulnerabilities introduced during development of a version and fixed before a stable release are not mentioned).

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Severity CVE Tracker Affected versions Fixed in version Release date Git Description / Workaround
CVE-2020-9760 - 0.3.4 → 2.7 2.7.1 * Buffer overflow when a new IRC message 005 is received with longer nick prefixes.
> There is no workaround.
CVE-2020-9759 - 0.4.0 → 2.7 2.7.1 * Crash when receiving a malformed IRC message 352 (WHO).
> There is no workaround.
CVE-2020-8955 - 0.3.8 → 2.7 2.7.1 * Buffer overflow when receiving a malformed IRC message 324 (channel mode).
> There is no workaround.
CVE-2017-14727 - 0.3.2 → 1.9 1.9.1 * Date/time conversion specifiers are expanded after replacing buffer local variables in name of log files. In some cases, this can lead to an error in function strftime and a crash caused by the use of an uninitialized buffer.
> Workaround:
Unload the logger plugin: /plugin unload logger
CVE-2017-8073 - 0.3.3 → 1.7 1.7.1 * Buffer overflow when removing quotes in DCC filename.
> Workaround:
Create a trigger (with WeeChat >= 1.1): /trigger add irc_dcc_quotes modifier "irc_in_privmsg" "${arguments} =~ ^[^ ]+ :${\x01}DCC SEND ${\x22} " "/.*//"
- - 0.3.8 → 0.4.0 0.4.1 * Uncontrolled format string when IRC commands are redirected by relay plugin. If the output or redirected command contains formatting chars like "%", this can lead to a crash of WeeChat.
> Workaround:
Do not use irc protocol in relay plugin.
- - 0.3.0 → 0.4.0 0.4.1 * Uncontrolled format string when sending unknown IRC command to server (if option "irc.network.send_unknown_commands" is on).
> Workaround:
Turn off option "irc.network.send_unknown_commands" or do not use formatting chars like "%" when sending unknown commands to server.
- - 0.3.6 → 0.4.0 0.4.1 * Uncontrolled format string when sending IRC "ison" command for nicks monitored with command /notify.
> Workaround:
Do not use command /notify with nicks containing formatting chars like "%".
CVE-2012-5534 bug #37764 0.3.0 → 0.3.9.1 0.3.9.2 * Untrusted command for function hook_process could lead to execution of commands, because of shell expansions (so the problem is only caused by some scripts, not by WeeChat itself).
> Workaround:
Remove/unload all scripts calling function hook_process (for maximum safety).
CVE-2012-5854 bug #37704 0.3.6 → 0.3.9 0.3.9.1 * Buffer overflow when decoding IRC colors in strings.
> Workaround:
/set irc.network.colors_receive off
CVE-2011-1428 patch #7459 0.1.3 → 0.3.4 0.3.5 * Missing verifications in SSL certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL chat server via an arbitrary certificate.
> There is no workaround.
CVE-2009-0661 bug #25862 0.2.6 0.2.6.1 * Crash when receiving special chars in IRC messages.
> There is no workaround.
- - 0.0.5 → 0.1.6 0.1.7 * * Uncontrolled format string in API function infobar_printf.
> There is no workaround.
- - 0.0.1 → 0.0.4 0.0.5 * Buffer overflows in build of strings.
> There is no workaround.

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