Bug 1410827 (CVE-2017-5196)

Summary:	CVE-2017-5196 irssi: Out of bounds read in certain incomplete character sequences
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	huzaifas, jskarvad
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OS:	Linux
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-01-06 15:18:53 UTC

An out of bounds read in certain incomplete character sequences was found in irssi.

External References:

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/6c6c42e3d1b49d90aacc0b67f8540471cae02a1d

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/26

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-01-06 15:20:18 UTC

Created irssi tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1410829]