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CVE-2009-0661
Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) 0.2.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IRC PRIVMSG command…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.1%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?25862 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 34148 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 34304 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://weechat.flashtux.org/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 52763 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0758 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519940 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-1744 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- weechat-ircmessage-dos(49295) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 34328 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20090317 Re: CVE request -- firefox, vlc, WeeChat (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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