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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:59:34 +0200
From: Ailin Nemui <ailin.nemui@...il.com>
To: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Irssi 1.2.2:CVE-2019-15717

IRSSI-SA-2019-08 Irssi Security Advisory [1]
============================================
CVE-2019-15717

Description
-----------

(a) Use after free when receiving duplicate CAP found by Joseph Bisch.
    (CWE-416)

    CVE-2019-15717 [2] was assigned to this issue.


Impact
------

May affect the stability of Irssi.


Affected versions
-----------------

(a) Irssi 1.2.0 and later


Fixed in
--------

Irssi 1.2.2


Recommended action
------------------

Upgrade to Irssi 1.2.2. We've published maintenance releases, 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
----------------

Most servers do not send duplicate CAP



References
----------

[1] https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2019_08.txt
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-15717


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