An information disclosure vulnerability was found in the buf.pl core script for irssi. Other users on the same machine may be able to retrieve the whole window contents after /UPGRADE when the buf.pl script is loaded. Furthermore, this dump of the windows contents is never removed afterwards. External References: https://irssi.org/2016/09/22/buf.pl-update/ Upstream fix: https://github.com/irssi/scripts.irssi.org/commit/f1b1eb154baa684fad5d65bf4dff79c8ded8b65a References: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/605
Created irssi tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1379272] Affects: epel-5 [bug 1379273]
Fixed.
(In reply to Jaroslav Škarvada from comment #2) > Fixed. In Fedora 23 - 26 and EPEL-5.
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