CVE-2012-5854 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2012-5854 at MITRE

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in WeeChat 0.3.6 through 0.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted IRC colors that are not properly decoded.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 789146 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2013:0150-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:58 2023

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 19:41:22 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:18:23 2025