CVE-2020-8955

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

irc_mode_channel_update in plugins/irc/irc-mode.c in WeeChat through 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed IRC message 324 (channel mode).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8955

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202002-12

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.7.1-1
debian debianbookwormfixed2.7.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.7.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.7.1-1
debian debiansidfixed2.7.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.7.1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.