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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 6, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-5208

CVE-2018-5208

Description

In Irssi before 1.0.6, a calculation error in the completion code could cause a heap buffer overflow when completing certain strings.

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Affected products

3

Irssi/Irssillm-fuzzy
Range: <1.0.6
osv-coords2 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/irssi&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/irssi&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2012
< 1.2.3-2.4+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.2.3-2.4
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.6-36.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

2

irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_01.txtnvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4162nvdThird Party Advisory

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