Mageia alert MGASA-2020-0122 (weechat)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2020-0122: Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability 
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Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:15:12 +0100
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MGASA-2020-0122 - Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Mar 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0122.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2020-8955

Description:
Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability:

irc_mode_channel_update in plugins/irc/irc-mode.c in WeeChat through
2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer
overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other
impact via a malformed IRC message 324 (channel mode)(CVE-2020-8955).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26267
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2020-02/msg00...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8955

SRPMS:
- 7/core/weechat-2.4-2.1.mga7