USN-5258-1

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5258-1
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-5258-1.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/USN-5258-1
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Published
2022-02-04T16:38:24.988878Z
Modified
2025-10-13T04:35:44Z
Summary
weechat vulnerabilities
Details

Stuart Nevans Locke discovered that WeeChat's relay plugin insecurely handled malformed websocket frames. A remote attacker in control of a server could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service in a client. (CVE-2021-40516)

Stuart Nevans Locke discovered that WeeChat insecurely handled certain IRC messages. A remote attacker in control of a server could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service in a client. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-9760)

Stuart Nevans Locke discovered that WeeChat insecurely handled certain IRC messages. A remote unauthenticated attacker could possibly use these issues to cause denial of service in a client. These issues only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-9759, CVE-2020-8955)

Joseph Bisch discovered that WeeChat's logger incorrectly handled certain memory operations when handling log file names. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service in a client. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-14727)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / weechat

Package

Name
weechat
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/weechat@1.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm1

Affected versions

1.*

1.3-1
1.3-1build1
1.4-1
1.4-1build1
1.4-1build2
1.4-2
1.4-2ubuntu0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-core"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-curses"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-plugins"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2017-14727"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2020-8955"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2020-9759"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2020-9760"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2021-40516"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS"
}

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / weechat

Package

Name
weechat
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/weechat@1.9.1-1ubuntu1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.9.1-1ubuntu1+esm1

Affected versions

1.*

1.9.1-1
1.9.1-1build1
1.9.1-1ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.9.1-1ubuntu1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.9.1-1ubuntu1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-core"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.9.1-1ubuntu1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-curses"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.9.1-1ubuntu1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.9.1-1ubuntu1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-plugins"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2020-8955"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2020-9759"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2020-9760"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2021-40516"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS"
}

Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS / weechat

Package

Name
weechat
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/weechat@2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

2.*

2.6-2
2.6-2build1
2.6-2build2
2.6-2ubuntu1
2.6-2ubuntu2
2.8-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-core"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-curses"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-guile"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-headless"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-lua"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-perl"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-php"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-plugins"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-python"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-ruby"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "weechat-tcl"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2021-40516"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS"
}