CVE-2018-7051
published 2018-02-15CVE-2018-7051: An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. Certain nick names could result in out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings.
PriorityP338high7.5CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUINSUCHINAN
EPSS
2.49%
82.9th percentile
An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. Certain nick names could result in out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings.
Affected
14 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| debian | debian_linux | — | — |
| debian | debian_linux | — | — |
| debian | irssi | < irssi 1.0.7-1 (bookworm) | irssi 1.0.7-1 (bookworm) |
| irssi | irssi | < 1.0.7 | 1.0.7 |
| irssi | irssi | — | — |
| irssi | irssi | >= 0 < 1.0.7-1 | 1.0.7-1 |
| irssi | irssi | >= 0 < 1.0.7-1 | 1.0.7-1 |
| irssi | irssi | >= 0 < 1.0.7-1 | 1.0.7-1 |
| irssi | irssi | >= 0 < 1.0.7-1 | 1.0.7-1 |
| irssi | irssi | >= 0 < 0.8.15-5ubuntu3.5 | 0.8.15-5ubuntu3.5 |
| irssi | irssi | >= 0 < 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.7 | 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.7 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.07.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_debian7.5HIGH
vendor_redhat7.5HIGH
vendor_ubuntu7.5HIGH
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GHSA
GHSA-82mx-xfmg-73c8: An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2018-7051 [HIGH] CWE-125 GHSA-82mx-xfmg-73c8: An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1
An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. Certain nick names could result in out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings.
OSV
irssi vulnerabilities
osv·2018-03-06·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-7050 [HIGH] irssi vulnerabilities
irssi vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain empty
nick names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2018-7050)
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain nick names.
An attacker could possibly use this to access sensitive information.
(CVE-2018-7051)
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled an increase in the
number of windows. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
a denial of service. (CVE-2018-7052)
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain messages.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service
or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-7053)
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly
OSV
CVE-2018-7051: An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1
osv·2018-02-15·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-7051 [HIGH] CVE-2018-7051: An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1
An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. Certain nick names could result in out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings.
Ubuntu
Irssi vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2018-03-06·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-7050 [HIGH] Irssi vulnerabilities
Title: Irssi vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Irssi.
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain empty
nick names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2018-7050)
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain nick names.
An attacker could possibly use this to access sensitive information.
(CVE-2018-7051)
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled an increase in the
number of windows. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
a denial of service. (CVE-2018-7052)
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain messages.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service
or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 17
Red Hat
irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names
vendor_redhat·2018-02-08·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-7051 [HIGH] CWE-125 irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names
irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names
An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. Certain nick names could result in out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings.
An out of bound read was found in Irssi, version 0.8.7 and later, when dealing with malformed theme strings. An attacker could trigger the vulnerability by using specific nick names that could potentially cause a crash in the application.
Package: irssi (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Will not fix
Package: irssi (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Will not fix
Package: irssi (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8) - Not affected
Debian
CVE-2018-7051: irssi - An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. Certain ni...
vendor_debian·2018·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-7051 [HIGH] CVE-2018-7051: irssi - An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. Certain ni...
An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. Certain nick names could result in out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 1.0.7-1)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 1.0.7-1)
forky: resolved (fixed in 1.0.7-1)
sid: resolved (fixed in 1.0.7-1)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 1.0.7-1)
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7051 irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names
bugzilla·2018-02-16·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-7051 [HIGH] CVE-2018-7051 irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names
CVE-2018-7051 irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names
An issue was discovered in Irssi 0.8.7 and later in function
theme_format_expand_abstract of fe-common/core/themes.c file. Certain nick names
could result in out-of-bounds access when printing malformed theme strings.
Upstream commit:
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/e0c66e31224894674356ddaf6d46016c1abc994f
Upstream patch:
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/e32e9d63c67ab95ef0576154680a6c52334b97af
References:
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_02.txt
Discussion:
Created irssi tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1546316]
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7051 irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2018-02-16·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-7051 [HIGH] CVE-2018-7051 irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names [fedora-all]
CVE-2018-7051 irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of fedora-all.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affect
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/02/15/1https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_02.txthttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00021.htmlhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3590-1/https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4162http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/02/15/1https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_02.txthttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00021.htmlhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3590-1/https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4162
2018-02-15
Published