[Secure-testing-team] Bug#890677: irssi: CVE-2018-7051

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: irssi
Version: 0.8.17-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for irssi.

CVE-2018-7051[0]:
| An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1.
| Certain nick names could result in out-of-bounds access when printing
| theme strings.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7051
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7051
[1] https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_02.txt
[2] https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/e32e9d63c67ab95ef0576154680a6c52334b97af

Regards,
Salvatore