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CVE-2018-5208

Impact:: Moderate
Public Date:: 2018-01-06
CWE:: CWE-122

Bugzilla:: 1532622: CVE-2018-5208 irssi: heap buffer overflow due to calculation error in the completion code

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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

Find out more about CVE-2018-5208 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score	5
CVSS3 Base Metrics	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High

Affected Packages State

Platform	Package	State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	irssi	Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	irssi	Will not fix

External References

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_01.txt

Last Modified 2018-04-27T20:56:15+00:00

CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation