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CVE-2018-5208 (GCVE-0-2018-5208)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-01-06 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:26
VLAI
Summary
In Irssi before 1.0.6, a calculation error in the completion code could cause a heap buffer overflow when completing certain strings.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4162 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_01.txt x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2018-01-06 00:00
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