Executive Summary

Summary
Title weechat security update
Informations
Name DSA-2598 First vendor Publication 2013-01-05
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2013-01-05
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Two security issues have been discovered in Weechat a, fast, light and extensible chat client:

CVE-2011-1428

X.509 certificates were incorrectly validated.

CVE-2012-5534

The hook_process function in the plugin API allowed the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.2-1+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.8-1+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.9.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your weechat packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2598

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20160
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20160
Title: DSA-2598-1 weechat - several
Description: Two security issues have been discovered in WeeChat, a fast, light and extensible chat client.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2598-1
CVE-2011-1428
CVE-2012-5534
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Product(s): weechat
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 40

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-12-14 Name : Fedora Update for weechat FEDORA-2012-19538
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_19538_weechat_fc16.nasl
2012-12-11 Name : Fedora Update for weechat FEDORA-2012-19533
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_19533_weechat_fc17.nasl
2012-12-04 Name : Fedora Update for weechat FEDORA-2012-18526
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_18526_weechat_fc17.nasl
2012-11-29 Name : Fedora Update for weechat FEDORA-2012-18575
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_18575_weechat_fc16.nasl
2012-11-26 Name : FreeBSD Ports: weechat
File : nvt/freebsd_weechat.nasl
2011-07-12 Name : Fedora Update for weechat FEDORA-2011-7843
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_7843_weechat_fc15.nasl
2011-07-08 Name : Fedora Update for weechat FEDORA-2011-7839
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_7839_weechat_fc14.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
75084 WeeChat SSL Certificate Verification MitM Server Spoofing Weakness

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-814.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-05-05 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201405-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-04-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-136.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-07 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2598.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-19538.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-19588.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-19533.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-29 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-18526.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-29 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-18575.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-27 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-18494.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-07-05 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-7839.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-07-05 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-7843.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:31:33
  • Multiple Updates
2013-01-05 17:17:42
  • First insertion