CVE-2019-5882 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2019-5882?

CVE-2019-5882 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 9 Jan 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5882?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Irssi Irssi.

How do I fix CVE-2019-5882?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2019-5882 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5882 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2019-5882, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5882, GHSA-843w-9chm-9mvw, MGASA-2019-0091, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5882, USN-3862-1 and 1 more.