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Mageia: MGASA-2021-0255 Critical: Irssi Memory Handling Fix

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Calendar Grey June 13, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2021-0256 upgrades irssi to 1.2.4 to resolve problems like memory corruption and unexpected shutdowns on Mageia versions 7 and 8.
The irssi packages are updated to irssi 1.2.3 to fix several issues among some security vulnerabilities: * memory handling issues * memory leaks * erroneous free * crashes / freeze...

Summary

The irssi packages are updated to irssi 1.2.3 to fix several issues among some security vulnerabilities: * memory handling issues * memory leaks * erroneous free * crashes / freezes

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29060

- https://irssi.org/2021/04/11/irssi-1.2.3-released/

- https://irssi.org/NEWS/#v1-2-3

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update memory handling crash issues Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/irssi-1.2.3-1.mga8

- 7/core/irssi-1.2.3-1.mga7

Severity
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Publication date: 13 Jun 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0255.html
Type: security

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update memory handling crash issues Mageia

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