| Name | CVE-2023-29132 |
| Description | Irssi 1.3.x and 1.4.x before 1.4.4 has a use-after-free because of use of a stale special collector reference. This occurs when printing of a non-formatted line is concurrent with printing of a formatted line. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1033785 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| irssi (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 0.8.17-1+deb8u5 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.0.7-1~deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 1.2.0-2+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.2.3-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.4.3-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.4.5-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| irssi | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| irssi | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| irssi | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| irssi | source | bullseye | (not affected) | | | |
| irssi | source | (unstable) | 1.4.3-2 | | | 1033785 |
Notes
[bullseye] - irssi <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[buster] - irssi <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2023_03.txt
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/pull/1456
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/c554a45738712219c066897b09a44d99afeb4240