FreeBSD: VID-06F931C0-0BE0-11E7-B4BF-5404A68AD561: irssi -- use-after-free potential code execution
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03/11/2017
07/25/2018
03/18/2017
03/18/2017
Description
The irssi project reports:
Use after free while producing list of netjoins (CWE-416).
This issue was found and reported to us by APic.
This issue usually leads to segmentation faults.
Targeted code execution should be difficult.
Solution(s)
- freebsd-upgrade-package-irssi
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