Bug 1410827 – CVE-2017-5196 irssi: Out of bounds read in certain incomplete character sequences

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Bug 1410827 - (CVE-2017-5196) CVE-2017-5196 irssi: Out of bounds read in certain incomplete character sequences

Summary:	CVE-2017-5196 irssi: Out of bounds read in certain incomplete character seque...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-5196

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1410829
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Reported:	2017-01-06 10:18 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2018-05-31 17:51 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	irssi 0.8.21, irssi 1.0.0
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-01-06 10:18:53 EST

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 10:20:18 EST

Created irssi tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1410829]

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