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MGASA-2012-0330

Date:	November 17th, 2012
Affected releases:	2

Description:
A buffer overflow is causing a crash or freeze of WeeChat (0.36 to 0.39)
when decoding IRC colors in strings. The packages have been patched to
fix this problem.

Updated Packages:
weechat-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-aspell-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-charset-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-devel-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-lua-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-perl-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-python-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-ruby-0.3.6-3.1.mga2
weechat-tcl-0.3.6-3.1.mga2

References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5854
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37704
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8044