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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.

[source]

References

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

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