Vulnerabilities / CVE-2020-9760

critical

CVE-2020-9760

An issue was discovered in WeeChat before 2.7.1 (0.3.4 to 2.7 are affe ...

Published Modified CWE 120
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

An issue was discovered in WeeChat before 2.7.1 (0.3.4 to 2.7 are affected). When a new IRC message 005 is received with longer nick prefixes, a buffer overflow and possibly a crash can happen when a new mode is set for a nick.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10weechat2.3-1+deb10u1
debian 11weechat2.7.1-1
debian 12weechat2.7.1-1
debian 13weechat2.7.1-1
debian 14weechat2.7.1-1
debian 8weechat1.0.1-1+deb8u3
debian 9weechat1.6-1+deb9u3
echoweechat2.7.1-1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMweechat1.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMweechat1.9.1-1ubuntu1+esm1

References

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