CVE-2019-5882

Publication date 9 January 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

Irssi 1.1.x before 1.1.2 has a use after free when hidden lines are expired from the scroll buffer.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
irssi 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 1.1.1-1ubuntu1.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.0.5-1ubuntu4.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.8
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.8.15-5ubuntu3.6

Patch details

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Package Patch details
irssi

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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