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irssi -- use-after-free potential code execution

Affected packages
0.8.21,1 < irssi < 1.0.2,1

Details

VuXML ID 06f931c0-0be0-11e7-b4bf-5404a68ad561
Discovery 2017-03-11
Entry 2017-03-18

The irssi project reports:

Use after free while producing list of netjoins (CWE-416). This issue was found and reported to us by APic. This issue usually leads to segmentation faults. Targeted code execution should be difficult.

References

CVE Name CVE-2017-7191
URL https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_03.txt