CVE-2016-2087

Priority
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the client in HexChat 2.11.0 allows
remote IRC servers to read or modify arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in
the server name.
References
Bugs
Notes
mdeslaurpatch is reverted in debian's hexchat package because it was
causing a regression for some use-cases.
logging the server name isn't the default configuration.
Package
Upstream:released (2.12.2)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:not-affected (2.12.4-4)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:not-affected (2.12.4-4)
Ubuntu 21.10:not-affected (2.12.4-4)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:not-affected (2.12.4-4)
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:DNE (trusty was needed)
Patches:
Upstream:https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/commit/15600f405f2d5bda6ccf0dd73957395716e0d4d3
Package
Source: xchat (LP Ubuntu Debian)
Upstream:needs-triage
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:not-affected (2.8.8-10)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:not-affected (2.8.8-10)
Ubuntu 21.10:DNE
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:DNE
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:DNE (trusty was needed)
Patches:
Package
Upstream:needs-triage
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:DNE
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:DNE
Ubuntu 21.10:DNE
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:needs-triage
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:DNE
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:DNE (trusty was needs-triage)
Patches:
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Updated: 2022-04-25 00:16:59 UTC (commit ecc1009cb19540b950de59270950018900f37f15)