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...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-5196
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1410829
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-01-06 15:18 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:48 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: irssi 0.8.21, irssi 1.0.0
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:05:09 UTC

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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]
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