[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: weechat-0.3.8-4.fc18
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Tue Nov 27 05:11:30 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-18494
2012-11-19 19:26:49
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Name : weechat
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 0.3.8
Release : 4.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 arbitrary code execution due to call of shell when executing command within hook_process
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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
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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/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project 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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