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Gentoo: GLSA-202311-02 Normal: Unwanted Network Disruption from Rosetta

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Calendar Grey April 4, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Enhance WeeChat immediately because of a security vulnerability posing a Denial of Service threat on Gentoo platforms. Essential for application reliability.
A processing error in WeeChat might lead to a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: WeeChat: Denial of Service Date: April 04, 2009 Bugs: #262997 ID: 200904-04

Synopsis ======= A processing error in WeeChat might lead to a Denial of Service.
Background ========= Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) is a light and extensible console IRC client.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-irc/weechat < 0.2.6.1 >= 0.2.6.1
========== Sebastien Helleu reported an array out-of-bounds error in the colored message handling.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could send a specially crafted PRIVMSG command, possibly leading to a Denial of S...

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