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TITLE:
WeeChat IRC Message Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34304

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34304/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in WeeChat, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the then handling
of IRC messages containing certain color codes. This can be exploited
to crash the application by sending specially crafted messages to a
vulnerable client.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.2.6.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.2.6.1.
http://weechat.flashtux.org/download.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

CHANGELOG:
2009-03-18: Updated "Description" section with new information
provided by Debian. Added link to "Other References" section.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?25862

OTHER REFERENCES:
DSA-1744-1:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00054.html

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