vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3527-1 (CVE-2018-5208): Irssi vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 6, 2018
Added
Jan 11, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

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

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-irssi
Title
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