CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5356
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-125
Description
Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a string containing a formatting sequence (%[) without a closing bracket (]).
Affected configurations
• irssi irssi (< 0.8.21)
• debian debian linux 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/13/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96581 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/55-Fuzzing-Irssi-with-Perl-Scripts.html Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- 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
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/13/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96581 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/55-Fuzzing-Irssi-with-Perl-Scripts.html Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- 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