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Vigil@nce - Irssi: use after free via SASL Login
September 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, Solaris, Slackware, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on service.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 01/07/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force the usage of a freed memory area via SASL
Login of Irssi, in order to trigger a denial of service, and
possibly to run code.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Irssi-use-after-free-via-SASL-Login-29657
