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FreeBSD: VID-3D6BE69B-D365-11E6-A071-001E67F15F5A: Irssi -- multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-3D6BE69B-D365-11E6-A071-001E67F15F5A: Irssi -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/03/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/06/2017
Modified
01/06/2017

Description

Irssi reports:

Four vulnerabilities have been located in Irssi

A NULL pointer dereference in the nickcmp function found by Joseph Bisch. (CWE-690)

Use after free when receiving invalid nick message (Issue #466, CWE-146)

Out of bounds read in certain incomplete control codes found by Joseph Bisch. (CWE-126)

Out of bounds read in certain incomplete character sequences found by Hanno Böck and independently by J. Bisch. (CWE-126)

These issues may result in denial of service (remote crash).

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-irssi

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