Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-5208

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In Irssi before 1.0.6, a calculation error in the completion code could cause a heap buffer overflow when completing certain strings. CVE-2018-5208 Note that...

SUSE CVE-2018-5208

In Irssi before 1.0.6, a calculation error in the completion code could cause a heap buffer overflow when completing certain strings...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2018-0069)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for irssi (EulerOS-SA-2019-2595)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian DSA-4162-1 : irssi - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Irssi, a terminal-based IRC client which can result in denial of service. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4162. The text itself is copyright C...

Fedora Update for irssi FEDORA-2018-bc08435961

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora 26 : irssi (2018-bc08435961)

This is new version of irssi. It contains security fixes for CVE-2018-5205 CVE-2018-5206 CVE-2018-5207 CVE-2018-5208. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

Fedora 27 : irssi (2018-c4e4935e01)

This is new version of irssi. It contains security fixes for CVE-2018-5205 CVE-2018-5206 CVE-2018-5207 CVE-2018-5208 . Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

Updated irssi packages fix security vulnerabilities

Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled incomplete escape codes. If a user were tricked into using malformed commands or opening malformed files, an attacker could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service CVE-2018-5205. Joseph Bisch discovered that...

openSUSE Security Update : irssi (openSUSE-2018-18)

This update for irssi to version 1.0.6 fixes several issues that may affect the stability of irssi : - CVE-2018-5205: Data access beyond the end of the string when using incomplete escape codes - CVE-2018-5206: NULL pointer dereference when the channel topic is set without specifying a sender -...

CVE-2018-5208

In Irssi before 1.0.6, a calculation error in the completion code could cause a heap buffer overflow when completing certain strings...

CVE-2018-5208

CVE-2018-5208 affects Irssi before 1.0.6. A calculation error in the completion code can trigger a heap buffer overflow when completing certain strings, potentially crashing the application (denial of service) and, per some advisories, enabling earlier patch paths upstream to address the issue. P...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5208

In Irssi before 1.0.6, a calculation error in the completion code could cause a heap buffer overflow when completing certain strings...