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A weechat security update has been released for Fedora 32.



SECURITY: Fedora 32 Update: weechat-2.7.1-1.fc32


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-d242130019
2020-03-30 00:14:49.920928
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Name : weechat
Product : Fedora 32
Version : 2.7.1
Release : 1.fc32
URL : http://weechat.org
Summary : Portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client
Description :
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a portable, fast, light and
extensible IRC client. Everything can be done with a keyboard.
It is customizable and extensible with scripts.

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Update Information:

New version, fixes a lot of bugs (some of them security). In the same update,
fixed up epel7 build to latest version as well.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Feb 20 2020 Joe Walker - 2.7.1-1
- Update to Version 2.7.1
( https://weechat.org/files/releasenotes/ReleaseNotes-2.7.1.html)
( https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8955)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1444882 - CVE-2017-8073 weechat: Buffer overflow in the irc_ctcp_dcc_filename_without_quotes function [epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444882
[ 2 ] Bug #1500078 - weechat: Uninitialized buffer used in logger plugin [epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500078
[ 3 ] Bug #1648007 - Weechat 2.3 is currently available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1648007
[ 4 ] Bug #1677974 - weechat-2.4 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1677974
[ 5 ] Bug #1718050 - weechat-2.7.1 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1718050
[ 6 ] Bug #1793597 - weechat is missing sources
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1793597
[ 7 ] Bug #1803065 - CVE-2020-8955 weechat: denial of service in irc_mode_channel_update in plugins/irc/irc-mode.c [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1803065
[ 8 ] Bug #1803066 - CVE-2020-8955 weechat: denial of service in irc_mode_channel_update in plugins/irc/irc-mode.c [epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1803066
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-d242130019' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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