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[Secure-testing-team] Bug#890678: irssi: CVE-2018-7050
Salvatore Bonaccorso
2018-02-17 15:45:36 UTC
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Source: irssi
Version: 0.8.17-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for irssi.

CVE-2018-7050[0]:
| An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. A
| NULL pointer dereference occurs for an "empty" nick.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7050
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7050
[1] https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_02.txt
[2] https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/e91da9e4098e449dc36eaa15354aff67650e7703

Regards,
Salvatore

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