CVE-2018-5208
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-01-06 16:00
Modified
2024-08-05 05:26
Severity ?
Summary
In Irssi before 1.0.6, a calculation error in the completion code could cause a heap buffer overflow when completing certain strings.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_01.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4162Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_01.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4162Third Party Advisory
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