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openSUSE 11.4: Important Weechat Security Update (openSUSE-SU-2013:0150-1)

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2013
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE has released a security advisory addressing critical vulnerabilities in Weechat. Users are encouraged to check the important security update available now for comprehensive details.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

- added weechat-fix-hook_process-shell-injection.patch

which fixes a shell injection vulnerability in the

hook_process function (bnc#790217, CVE-2012-5534)

- added

weechat-fix-buffer-overflow-in-irc-color-decoding.patch

which fixes a heap-based overflow when decoding IRC

colors in strings (bnc#789146, CVE-2012-5854)

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 11.4/standard/i586/patchinfo.15:

zypper in -t patch 2012-9

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 11.4/standard/i586/patchinfo.15 (i586 x86_64):

weechat-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-aspell-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-aspell-debuginfo-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-debuginfo-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-debugsource-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-devel-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-lua-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-lua-debuginfo-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-perl-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-perl-debuginfo-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-python-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-python-debuginfo-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-ruby-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-ruby-debuginfo-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-tcl-0.3.3-7.1

weechat-tcl-debuginfo-0.3.3-7.1

- openSUSE 11.4/standard/i586/patchinfo.15 (noarch):

weechat-lang-0.3.3-7.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5534.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5854.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2013:0150-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4/standard/i586/patchinfo.15 .

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