Package(s):	irssi	CVE #(s):	CVE-2016-7045 CVE-2016-7044
Created:	September 22, 2016	Updated:	October 11, 2016
Description:	According to the irssi advisory, a missing length check can cause a range of memory to be overwritten. Evidently, only zeroes can be written, so opinions differ on whether this vulnerability is exploitable for code execution.
Alerts:	openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:2524-1 irssi 2016-10-13 Fedora FEDORA-2016-0551065fe0 irssi 2016-10-11 Fedora FEDORA-2016-a64716084e irssi 2016-10-10 Ubuntu USN-3086-1 irssi 2016-09-21 Slackware SSA:2016-265-03 irssi 2016-09-21 Debian DSA-3672-1 irssi 2016-09-21 Arch Linux ASA-201609-20 irssi 2016-09-22

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