Source: hexchat Version: 2.10.1-1 Severity: important Tags: security Hi,
the following vulnerability was published for hexchat. Opening a bug to have a BTS reference. CVE-2016-2087[0]: | Directory traversal vulnerability in the client in HexChat 2.11.0 | allows remote IRC servers to read or modify arbitrary files via a .. | (dot dot) in the server name. As noted by Mattia Rizzolo already, the fixing commit is reverted in the Debian packaging due to regression for some usecases, and waiting for a better fix. 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-2016-2087 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2087 Regards, Salvatore _______________________________________________ Secure-testing-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/secure-testing-team
