PublicDateAtUSN: 2017-01-06
Candidate: CVE-2017-5196
PublicDate: 2017-03-03 15:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5196
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/05/2
 https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3184-1
Description:
 Irssi 0.8.18 before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
 service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via vectors involving strings that
 are not UTF8.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslar> 0.8.18 and later only
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=850403
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Hanno Böck and Joseph Bisch
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_irssi:
 upstream: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/6c6c42e3d1b49d90aacc0b67f8540471cae02a1d
upstream_irssi: released (0.8.21-1)
precise_irssi: not-affected (0.8.15-4ubuntu3)
trusty_irssi: not-affected (0.8.15-5ubuntu3)
trusty/esm_irssi: DNE (trusty was not-affected [0.8.15-5ubuntu3])
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_irssi: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_irssi: DNE
xenial_irssi: released (0.8.19-1ubuntu1.3)
esm-infra/xenial_irssi: released (0.8.19-1ubuntu1.3)
yakkety_irssi: released (0.8.19-1ubuntu2.1)
devel_irssi: released (0.8.20-2ubuntu2)