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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:21:04 +0100
From: Ailin Nemui <ailin.nemui@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Irssi 1.1.2: CVE-2019-5882
IRSSI-SA-2019-01 Irssi Security Advisory [1]
============================================
CVE-2019-5882
Description
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(a) Use after free when hidden lines were expired from the scroll
buffer. (CWE-417, CWE-825)
CVE-2019-5882 [2] was assigned to this issue.
Impact
------
May affect the stability of Irssi.
Affected versions
-----------------
(a) Irssi 1.1.0 and later
Fixed in
--------
Irssi 1.1.2
Recommended action
------------------
Upgrade to Irssi 1.1.2. Irssi 1.1.2 is a maintenance release in the 1.1
series, without any new features.
After installing the updated packages, one can issue the /upgrade
command to load the new binary. TLS connections will require /reconnect.
Mitigating facts
----------------
(a) If lines are never hidden (no usage of /window hidelevel), this bug
will not trigger.
References
----------
[1] https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2019_01.txt
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-5882
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