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weechat -- Crash or freeze when decoding IRC colors in strings

Description:

Sebastien Helleu reports:

A buffer overflow is causing a crash or freeze of WeeChat when decoding IRC colors in strings.

Workaround for a non-patched version: /set irc.network.colors_receive off

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portaudit: weechat -- Crash or freeze when decoding IRC colors in strings

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>