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Alpine: multiple weechat packages: security update to 2.7.1-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427020

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - irc_mode_channel_update in plugins/irc/irc-mode.c in WeeChat through 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause
 a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via
 a malformed IRC message 324 (channel mode). (CVE-2020-8955)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-8955

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 427020

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8955

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8955