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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-13636
2012-12-03 19:47:19
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Name : weechat
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 0.3.9.2
Release : 2.el6
URL :
http://weechat.org
Summary : Portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client
Description :
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a portable, fast, light and
extensible IRC client. Everything can be done with a keyboard.
It is customizable and extensible with scripts.
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Update Information:
New upstream version
Fix arbitrary code execution due to call of shell when executing command within
hook_process
Fix the security bug in the linked Bugzilla.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #878025 - CVE-2012-5534 weechat (scripts / plug-ins): Arbitrary code execution
due to call of shell when executing command within hook_process
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878025
[ 2 ] Bug #875181 - CVE-2012-5854 weechat: Heap-based buffer overflow when decoding IRC
colors
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875181
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update weechat' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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