Mageia alert MGASA-2012-0330 (weechat)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2012-0330: weechat-0.3.6-3.1.mga2 (2/core) 
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Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:25:19 +0100
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MGASA-2012-0330
Date: 	November 17th, 2012
Affected releases: 	2


Description:
A buffer overflow is causing a crash or freeze of WeeChat (0.36 to 0.39)
when decoding IRC colors in strings. The packages have been patched to
fix this problem.


Updated Packages:
weechat-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-aspell-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-charset-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-devel-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-lua-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-perl-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-python-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-ruby-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-tcl-0.3.6-3.1.mga2


References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5854
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37704
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8044
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-...