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Bug 631926 (CVE-2017-14727)

Summary: <net-irc/weechat-1.9.1 crash caused by the use of an uninitialized buffer.
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: D'juan McDonald (domhnall) <flopwiki>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: arthur, radhermit
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://weechat.org/download/security/
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2017-09-24 11:54:04 UTC
from ${URL}:

Date/time conversion specifiers are expanded after replacing buffer local variables in name of log files. In some cases, this can lead to an error in function strftime and a crash caused by the use of an uninitialized buffer.
> Workaround:
Unload the logger plugin: /plugin unload logger 

Reference:
https://weechat.org/news/98/20170923-Version-1.9.1-security-release/

Patch:
https://github.com/weechat/weechat/commit/f105c6f0b56fb5687b2d2aedf37cb1d1b434d556

@maintainer(s), after bump, please call for stabilization if needed, thank you

Daj Uan (jmbailey/mbailey_J)
Gentoo Security Padawan
Comment 1 D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2017-09-24 12:11:13 UTC
Adjusting the summary...
Comment 2 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2017-09-29 23:01:31 UTC
1.9.1 added to the tree and stabilized.
Comment 3 Christopher Díaz Riveros (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2017-09-30 03:58:45 UTC
(In reply to Tim Harder from comment #2)
> 1.9.1 added to the tree and stabilized.

Thank you.

@Security please vote.

Gentoo Security Padawan
ChrisADR
Comment 4 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-10-08 20:44:23 UTC
GLSA Vote: No