Flashtux maintains a focused vulnerability profile centered around WeeChat, a widely embedded Internet Relay Chat client used across numerous deployment contexts. The observed exposure recurs through input-validation and memory-boundary issues that are characteristic of network protocol parsers, reflecting the complexity of IRC message handling. Current severity, exploitation activity, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Flashtux over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (4 CVEs).
4 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2012-5854HIGH Heap-based buffer overflow in WeeChat 0.3.6 through 0.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted IRC c | Nov 19, 2012 | 7.5 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2012-5534HIGH The hook_process function in the plugin API for WeeChat 0.3.0 through 0.3.9.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a command from a plu | Dec 3, 2012 | 7.5 | 24 | NO | NO |
CVE-2011-1428MEDIUM Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (aka WeeChat) 0.3.4 and earlier does not properly verify that the server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate, | Mar 16, 2011 | 5.8 | 20 | NO | NO |
CVE-2009-0661MEDIUM Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) 0.2.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IRC PRIVMSG command containing crafted color codes that trigge | Mar 19, 2009 | 5.0 | 18 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (4 CVEs).
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