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CVE-2019-5882 (GCVE-0-2019-5882)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-09 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 20:09
VLAI
Summary
Irssi 1.1.x before 1.1.2 has a use after free when hidden lines are expired from the scroll buffer.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2019_01.txt x_refsource_MISC
https://irssi.org/NEWS/#v1-1-2 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/pull/948 x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3862-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2019-01-09 00:00
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