Fedora 26: 2018-cbc52e8812 Critical Irssi Memory Management Issues

Irssi is a modular IRC client with Perl scripting. Only text-mode

frontend is currently supported. The GTK/GNOME frontend is no longer

being maintained.

This is new version fixing multiple vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-7050,

CVE-2018-7051, CVE-2018-7052, CVE-2018-7053, CVE-2018-7054.

[ 1 ] Bug #1546226 - CVE-2018-7053 irssi: use-after-free when SASL messages are received in unexpected order

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1546226

[ 2 ] Bug #1546280 - CVE-2018-7050 irssi: Null pointer dereference when an "empty" nick has been observed by

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1546280

[ 3 ] Bug #1546275 - CVE-2018-7051 irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1546275

[ 4 ] Bug #1546272 - CVE-2018-7052 irssi: Denial of Service (DoS) due to a NULL pointer dereference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1546272

[ 5 ] Bug #1546223 - CVE-2018-7054 irssi: use-after-free when a server is disconnected during netsplits

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1546223

su -c 'dnf upgrade irssi' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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