Bug 1546275 (CVE-2018-7051) - CVE-2018-7051 irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names
Summary: CVE-2018-7051 irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with ce...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-7051
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1546316 1563293 1563294 1563295
Blocks: 1546283
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-02-16 19:22 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:32 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: irssi 1.0.7, irssi 1.1.1
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:40:13 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-02-16 19:22:11 UTC 
An issue was discovered in Irssi 0.8.7 and later in function
theme_format_expand_abstract of fe-common/core/themes.c file. Certain nick names
could result in out-of-bounds access when printing malformed theme strings.

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/e0c66e31224894674356ddaf6d46016c1abc994f

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/e32e9d63c67ab95ef0576154680a6c52334b97af

References:
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_02.txt
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-02-16 20:12:12 UTC 
Created irssi tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1546316]
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