CVE-2019-5882
published 2019-01-09CVE-2019-5882: Irssi 1.1.x before 1.1.2 has a use after free when hidden lines are expired from the scroll buffer.
PriorityP339critical9.8CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
2.54%
83.2th percentile
Irssi 1.1.x before 1.1.2 has a use after free when hidden lines are expired from the scroll buffer.
Affected
10 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| debian | irssi | < irssi 1.1.2-1 (bookworm) | irssi 1.1.2-1 (bookworm) |
| irssi | irssi | >= 0 < 1.1.2-1 | 1.1.2-1 |
| irssi | irssi | >= 0 < 1.1.2-1 | 1.1.2-1 |
| irssi | irssi | >= 0 < 1.1.2-1 | 1.1.2-1 |
| irssi | irssi | >= 0 < 1.1.2-1 | 1.1.2-1 |
| irssi | irssi | >= 1.1.0 < 1.1.2 | 1.1.2 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.09.8CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.07.5HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
osv9.8CRITICAL
vendor_debian9.8CRITICAL
vendor_redhat9.8CRITICAL
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Ubuntu
Irssi vulnerability
vendor_ubuntu·2019-01-17
CVE-2019-5882 Irssi vulnerability
Title: Irssi vulnerability
Summary: Irssi could be made to crash or execute arbitrary code if it
received a specially crafted input.
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service
or to execute arbitrary code.
Instructions: After a standard system update you need to restart Irssi to make all the necessary changes.
Red Hat
irssi: Use-after-free when hidden lines were expired from the scroll buffer
vendor_redhat·2019-01-10·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2019-5882 [CRITICAL] CWE-416 irssi: Use-after-free when hidden lines were expired from the scroll buffer
irssi: Use-after-free when hidden lines were expired from the scroll buffer
Irssi 1.1.x before 1.1.2 has a use after free when hidden lines are expired from the scroll buffer.
Package: irssi (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: irssi (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Not affected
Package: irssi (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8) - Fix deferred
Debian
CVE-2019-5882: irssi - Irssi 1.1.x before 1.1.2 has a use after free when hidden lines are expired from...
vendor_debian·2019·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2019-5882 [CRITICAL] CVE-2019-5882: irssi - Irssi 1.1.x before 1.1.2 has a use after free when hidden lines are expired from...
Irssi 1.1.x before 1.1.2 has a use after free when hidden lines are expired from the scroll buffer.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 1.1.2-1)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 1.1.2-1)
forky: resolved (fixed in 1.1.2-1)
sid: resolved (fixed in 1.1.2-1)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 1.1.2-1)
GHSA
GHSA-843w-9chm-9mvw: Irssi 1
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2019-5882 [CRITICAL] CWE-416 GHSA-843w-9chm-9mvw: Irssi 1
Irssi 1.1.x before 1.1.2 has a use after free when hidden lines are expired from the scroll buffer.
OSV
CVE-2019-5882: Irssi 1
osv·2019-01-09·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2019-5882 [CRITICAL] CVE-2019-5882: Irssi 1
Irssi 1.1.x before 1.1.2 has a use after free when hidden lines are expired from the scroll buffer.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-5882 irssi: Use-after-free when hidden lines were expired from the scroll buffer
bugzilla·2019-01-11·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2019-5882 [CRITICAL] CVE-2019-5882 irssi: Use-after-free when hidden lines were expired from the scroll buffer
CVE-2019-5882 irssi: Use-after-free when hidden lines were expired from the scroll buffer
Irssi 1.1.x before 1.1.2 has a use after free when hidden lines are expired from the scroll buffer.
References:
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/pull/948
https://irssi.org/NEWS/#v1-1-2
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2019_01.txt
Discussion:
Created irssi tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1665511]
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Managed to reproduce this, I think.
```
==7054== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==7054== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==7054== Using Valgrind-3.14.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==7054== Command: irssi
==7054== Parent PID: 6978
==7054==
==7055==
==7055== HEAP SUMMARY:
==7055== in use at exit: 1,166,438 bytes in 14,059 bl
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-5882 irssi: Use-after-free when hidden lines were expired from the scroll buffer [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2019-01-11·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2019-5882 [CRITICAL] CVE-2019-5882 irssi: Use-after-free when hidden lines were expired from the scroll buffer [fedora-all]
CVE-2019-5882 irssi: Use-after-free when hidden lines were expired from the scroll buffer [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
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NOTE: this issue affects mu
2019-01-09
Published