CVE-2017-8073

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8073
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8073.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-8073
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-04-23T15:59:00Z
Modified
2026-07-08T16:54:00Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

WeeChat before 1.7.1 allows a remote crash by sending a filename via DCC to the IRC plugin. This occurs in the irc_ctcp_dcc_filename_without_quotes function during quote removal, with a buffer overflow.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "debian:debian_linux"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/weechat/weechat

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/weechat/weechat
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
f9b449df349f2998e6572f2b8dc434c9bb753f6d
Fixed
2fb346f25f79e412cf0ed314fdf791763c19b70b
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:weechat:weechat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "1.7.1"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
release-0-0-1
release-0-0-2
release-0-0-3
release-0-0-4
release-0-0-5
release-0-0-6
release-0-0-7
release-0-0-8
release-0-0-9
release-0-1-0
release-0-1-1
release-0-1-2
release-0-1-3
release-0-1-4
release-0-1-5
release-0-1-6
release-0-1-7
release-0-1-8
release-0-1-9
release-0-2-0
release-0-2-1
release-0-2-2
release-0-2-3
release-0-2-4
release-0-2-5
v0.*
v0.0.1
v0.0.2
v0.0.3
v0.0.4
v0.0.5
v0.0.6
v0.0.7
v0.0.8
v0.0.9
v0.1.0
v0.1.1
v0.1.2
v0.1.3
v0.1.4
v0.1.5
v0.1.6
v0.1.7
v0.1.8
v0.1.9
v0.2.0
v0.2.1
v0.2.2
v0.2.3
v0.2.4
v0.2.5
v0.2.6
v0.3.0
v0.3.0-rc1
v0.3.0-rc2
v0.3.0-rc3
v0.3.1
v0.3.2
v0.3.2-rc1
v0.3.3
v0.3.3-rc1
v0.3.3-rc2
v0.3.3-rc3
v0.3.4
v0.3.4-rc1
v0.3.4-rc2
v0.3.4-rc3
v0.3.5
v0.3.5-rc1
v0.3.5-rc2
v0.3.5-rc3
v0.3.6
v0.3.6-rc1
v0.3.6-rc2
v0.3.6-rc3
v0.3.7
v0.3.7-rc1
v0.3.7-rc2
v0.3.7-rc3
v0.3.8
v0.3.8-rc1
v0.3.8-rc2
v0.3.9
v0.3.9-rc1
v0.3.9-rc2
v0.4.0
v0.4.0-rc1
v0.4.0-rc2
v0.4.0-rc3
v0.4.1
v0.4.1-rc1
v0.4.1-rc2
v0.4.2
v0.4.2-rc1
v0.4.2-rc2
v0.4.3
v0.4.3-rc1
v0.4.3-rc2
v1.*
v1.0
v1.0-rc1
v1.0-rc2
v1.0-rc3
v1.1
v1.1-rc1
v1.1-rc2
v1.2
v1.2-rc1
v1.2-rc2
v1.3
v1.3-rc1
v1.3-rc2
v1.4
v1.4-rc1
v1.4-rc2
v1.5
v1.5-rc1
v1.5-rc2
v1.6
v1.6-rc1
v1.6-rc2
v1.7
v1.7-rc1
v1.7-rc2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8073.json"
vanir_signatures 
[
    {
        "deprecated":  false,
        "digest":  {
            "function_hash":  "41308266004020897568727659676175936952",
            "length":  236
        },
        "id":  "CVE-2017-8073-18ef7906",
        "signature_type":  "Function",
        "signature_version":  "v1",
        "source":  "https://github.com/weechat/weechat/commit/2fb346f25f79e412cf0ed314fdf791763c19b70b",
        "target":  {
            "file":  "src/plugins/irc/irc-ctcp.c",
            "function":  "irc_ctcp_dcc_filename_without_quotes"
        }
    },
    {
        "deprecated":  false,
        "digest":  {
            "line_hashes":  [
                "7136550432169568382372038610144534631",
                "149851620161036268812158380750019185529",
                "72640780985439590692021219778922370163",
                "46816594021756366840568026358850494950"
            ],
            "threshold":  0.9
        },
        "id":  "CVE-2017-8073-32768093",
        "signature_type":  "Line",
        "signature_version":  "v1",
        "source":  "https://github.com/weechat/weechat/commit/2fb346f25f79e412cf0ed314fdf791763c19b70b",
        "target":  {
            "file":  "src/plugins/irc/irc-ctcp.c"
        }
    }
]
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-07-08T16:54:00Z"