Bug 1378220

Summary:	New upstream release patching CVE-2016-7044 and CVE-2016-7045
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	bob
Component:	irssi	Assignee:	Marek Mahut <mmahut>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	25	CC:	huzaifas, jskarvad, mianosm, mmahut
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Last Closed:	2016-09-22 12:56:39 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description bob 2016-09-21 21:14:34 UTC

Description of problem:
irssi versions 0.8.17 to 0.8.19 are affected by heap corruption bugs CVE-2016-7044 and CVE-2016-7045. Further details at https://irssi.org/2016/09/21/irssi-0.8.20-released/

The current package version for F25A is irssi-0.8.19-2.fc25.x86_64

Comment 1 Jaroslav Škarvada 2016-09-22 12:56:39 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1378345 ***

Comment 2 Steven Miano 2016-09-24 15:26:53 UTC

Is this really a duplicate due to the versions being different in Red Hat versus Fedora? 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is seemingly unaffected by this issue at this time - but Fedora is very vulnerable to a remote exploit attempt if left as is.