CVE Request: Irssi use after free in netjoin condition (2017/03)

[Ailin Nemui <ailin.nemui () gmail com>]

Dear CVE Assignment Team,

please provide CVE for the following issue:

use after free condition during netjoin processing [1]
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CWE Classification: CWE-416



Description
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Use after free while producing list of netjoins (CWE-416)

This issue was found and reported to us by APic.


Impact
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This issue usually leads to segmentation faults. Targeted code
execution should be difficult.


Affected versions
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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.


Fixed in
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Irssi 1.0.2


Recommended action
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Upgrade to Irssi 1.0.2. Irssi 1.0.2 is a maintenance release
without any new features.


Patch
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https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/77b2631c78461965bc9a7414aae206b5c
514e1b3


References
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[1] https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_03.txt