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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63609
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1744-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'weechat' package(s) announced via the DSA-1744-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'weechat' package(s) announced via the DSA-1744-1 advisory.

Vulnerability 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.

Affected Software/OS:
'weechat' package(s) on Debian 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-0661
BugTraq ID: 34148
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34148
Debian Security Information: DSA-1744 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1744
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/17/8
http://osvdb.org/52763
http://secunia.com/advisories/34304
http://secunia.com/advisories/34328
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0758
XForce ISS Database: weechat-ircmessage-dos(49295)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49295
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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