CVE-2017-8073
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.88%weechat - security update
Published: 4/23/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
WeeChat before 1.7.1 allows a remote crash by sending a filename via DCC to the IRC plugin. This occurs in the irc_ctcp_dcc_filename_without_quotes function during quote removal, with a buffer overflow.
Affected packages (4)
- Alpine/weechatfrom 0, < 1.2-r1
- Debian/weechatfrom 0, < 1.7-3
- Debian/weechatfrom 0, < 0.3.8-1+deb7u2
- Debian/weechatfrom 0, < 1.0.1-1+deb8u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |