CVE-2009-0661 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-0661

Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) 0.2.6 allows remote attackers...

Vulnerability 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 read.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

weechat
Vulnerable Versions:
0.2.6

Timeline

Official Publish: March 19th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.