From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] irssi: security bump to version 1.0.2
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:01:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170314220145.664560df@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170314150039.9913-1-peter@korsgaard.com>
Hello,
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:00:39 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> Fixes CWE-416 (use after free condition during netjoin processing). No CVE
> assigned yet:
>
> https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_03.txt
>
> Notice that the 0.8.x series is not believed to be vulnerable to this
> specific issue. From the advisory:
>
> Affected versions
> -----------------
>
> Irssi up to and including 1.0.1
>
> We believe Irssi 0.8.21 and prior are not affected since a different
> code path causes the netjoins to be flushed prior to reaching the use
> after free condition.
So why do you have "security bump" in the commit title ? We're using
0.8.21, which is not affected by the issue, so this is not a security
bump IMO, unless I missed something.
Thanks,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-14 15:00 [Buildroot] [PATCH] irssi: security bump to version 1.0.2 Peter Korsgaard
2017-03-14 21:01 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2017-03-14 21:21 ` Peter Korsgaard
2017-03-14 21:33 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-03-15 10:52 ` Peter Korsgaard
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