CVE-2009-0661
Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) 0.2.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IRC PRIVMSG command containing crafted color codes that trigger an out-of-bounds
02 Description
Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) 0.2.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IRC PRIVMSG command containing crafted color codes that trigger an out-of-bounds
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.10% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-03-19 10:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 04:40Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-02-22
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5da2736dd696400382c44871faf322748f495ab429e401af07663bc09820a634
05 Affected products
06 References
- savannah.nongnu.orghttp://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?25862
- www.securityfocus.com34148http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34148
- secunia.com34304http://secunia.com/advisories/34304
- weechat.flashtux.orghttp://weechat.flashtux.org/
- osvdb.org52763http://osvdb.org/52763
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-0758http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0758
- bugs.debian.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519940
- www.debian.orgDSA-1744http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1744
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comweechat-ircmessage-dos(49295)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49295
- secunia.com34328http://secunia.com/advisories/34328
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20090317 Re: CVE request -- firefox, vlc, WeeChathttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/17/8
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- weechat Fixed in 0.2.6.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- weechat Fixed in 0.2.6.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- weechat Fixed in 0.2.6.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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