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SUSE-SU-2020:2872-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2020-10-06 15:39 - Updated: 2020-10-06 15:39
Summary
Security update for hexchat
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for hexchat
Description of the patch: This update for hexchat fixes the following issues: - CVE-2016-2087: A directory traversal was possible if a user could be convinced to connect to a server with a hostname with '..' in its name. (bsc#1020739). This non-security issue was fixed: - Add dependency on iso-codes and hwdata as hexchat tries to use them (bsc#1034310)
Patchnames: SUSE-2020-2872,SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP5-2020-2872
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP5:hexchat-2.12.0-6.5.146.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP5:hexchat-lang-2.12.0-6.5.146.noarch
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact low

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