[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: weechat-0.3.8-3.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-17950
2012-11-10 19:30:44
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Name        : weechat
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.3.8
Release     : 3.fc18
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:

Fix buffer overflow when parsing IRC colors.
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References:

  [ 1 ] 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 program.  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/.

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