CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5194
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid nick message.
Affected configurations
• irssi irssi (< 0.8.21)
• debian debian linux 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/06/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95310 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-45 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/06/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95310 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-45 Third Party Advisory