external_links:
        - id: CVE-2016-7044
          url: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7044
        - id: IRSSI-SA-2016
          url: https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt
exploitable_by: client
affected_versions: 0.8.17-beta up to and including 0.8.19 up to 0.8.19-219-g52fedea (but only versions compiled with true-color enabled)
fixed_version: 0.8.20
release_date: 2016-09-14
git_commit: 295a4b77f07f14602eeaa371f00ddbf09910c82b
credit: Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet from Quarkslab
description: |
        Remote crash and heap corruption in format parsing code