CVE-2018-5208 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Irssi

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow9 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
1.0%
top 22.87%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
IrssiDebian IrssiDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedJan 6
Latest updateMay 14

Description

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

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDirssi/irssi< 1.0.6
▶debiandebian/irssi< irssi 1.0.7-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianirssi/irssi< 1.0.7-1+3
▶Ubuntuirssi/irssi< 0.8.15-5ubuntu3.4+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0

Patches

Patch: irssi.org ↗Patch: irssi.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-7xfv-xhfj-92hw: In Irssi before 1↗2022-05-14
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OSV
irssi vulnerabilities↗2018-01-10
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OSV
CVE-2018-5208: In Irssi before 1↗2018-01-06
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Irssi vulnerabilities↗2018-01-10
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Red Hat
irssi: heap buffer overflow due to calculation error in the completion code↗2018-01-06
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Debian
CVE-2018-5208: irssi - In Irssi before 1.0.6, a calculation error in the completion code could cause a ...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5205 CVE-2018-5206 CVE-2018-5207 CVE-2018-5208 irssi: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2018-01-09
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5208 irssi: heap buffer overflow due to calculation error in the completion code↗2018-01-09
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