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Re: Irssi 1.0.0 minor remote memory leak
From: Ailin Nemui <ailin.nemui () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2017 22:09:20 +0100
On Sun, 2017-02-05 at 21:54 +0100, Ailin Nemui wrote:
memory it wants to leak. The issue is a missing free of the base64 data. Please advise whether that issue needs a CVE?
Note that, a malicious server would have many ways to exhaust Irssi resources which we see no urgency to protect against, for example by force joining people to an endless number of channels, open many queries etc.
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