Source: weechat
Version: 2.6-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for weechat.

CVE-2020-8955[0]:
| 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).


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8955
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8955
[1] 
https://github.com/weechat/weechat/commit/6f4f147d8e86adf9ad34a8ffd7e7f1f23a7e74da

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

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