Bug 1378344 (CVE-2016-7045)

Summary: CVE-2016-7045 irssi: String length not validated in format_send_to_gui() causing crash
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 1378345, 1378346    
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-09-22 08:22:29 UTC
A vulnerability in irssi was found caused by improper input checking allowing remote attacker to cause application crash.

The format_send_to_gui() function does not validate the length of the string before incrementing the `ptr' pointer in all cases. If that happens, the pointer `ptr' can be incremented twice and thus end past the boundaries of the original `dup' buffer.

Affected versions: Irssi 0.8.17-beta up to and including 0.8.19 up to 0.8.19-219-g52fedea

External Reference:

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-09-22 08:23:39 UTC
Created irssi tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1378345]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1378346]

Comment 6 Cedric Buissart 2016-09-27 09:50:33 UTC
As shipped in RHEL-6, RHEL-7 or EPEL-5, the ptr pointer can not overflow. These products are not affected by this flaw.