Out-of-Bounds Affecting irssi package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-IRSSI-350729
  • published6 Jan 2018
  • disclosed6 Jan 2018

Introduced: 6 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-5208  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 irssi.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream irssi package and not the irssi package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Irssi before 1.0.6, a calculation error in the completion code could cause a heap buffer overflow when completing certain strings.