Bug 1546272 (CVE-2018-7052)

Summary:	CVE-2018-7052 irssi: Denial of Service (DoS) due to a NULL pointer dereference
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	huzaifas, jskarvad, rschiron
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	irssi 1.0.7, irssi 1.1.1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A crash due to a NULL pointer dereference was found in Irssi when non-default configuration is used and the number of windows exceeds the available space.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 03:40:11 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1546317, 1563322, 1563325, 1563326
Bug Blocks:	1546283

Description Laura Pardo 2018-02-16 19:14:37 UTC

An issue was discovered in Irssi. When the number of windows exceeds the
available space, a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference in cmd_window_show
function of fe-text/mainwindows.c file could occur with non-default
configurations.

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/d3dc9a1307adc40425bf162f1f867a39e535f501

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5b5bfef03596d95079c728f65f523570dd7b03aa

References:
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_02.txt

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-02-16 20:12:14 UTC

Created irssi tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1546317]