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irssi -- heap corruption and missing boundary checks

Affected packages
0.8.17 <= irssi < 0.8.20
0.8.17 <= zh-irssi < 0.8.20

Details

VuXML ID e78261e4-803d-11e6-a590-14dae9d210b8
Discovery 2016-09-21
Entry 2016-09-21
Modified 2016-09-22

Irssi reports:

Remote crash and heap corruption. Remote code execution seems difficult since only Nuls are written.

References

CVE Name CVE-2016-7044
CVE Name CVE-2016-7045
URL https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt