CVE-2018-5208

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-5208
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-01-06 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-03-12 12:20:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Irssi before 1.0.6, a calculation error in the completion code could cause a heap buffer overflow when completing certain strings.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Irssi Irssi All All All All
Application Irssi Irssi All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4162-1 irssi DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_01.txt CONFIRM irssi.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500264 Alpine Linux Security Update for irssi
  • 504028 Alpine Linux Security Update for irssi
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