Debian DSA-2598-1 : weechat - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 63383

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the weechat packages.

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

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1428

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5534

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/weechat

https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2598

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63383

File Name: debian_DSA-2598.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/7/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:weechat, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1428, CVE-2012-5534

BID: 46612, 56584

DSA: 2598