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CVE-2018-5208

Published: 6 January 2018

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

Notes

AuthorNote
ratliff
GL#19, GL!27

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 9.8

Status

Package Release Status
irssi
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was released [0.8.15-5ubuntu3.4])
xenial
Released (0.8.19-1ubuntu1.6)
zesty
Released (0.8.20-2ubuntu2.3)
artful
Released (1.0.4-1ubuntu2.2)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/94f0cbe34a2089d00ba1bf61e9c2b28318f953b9