CVE-2017-9468

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.72%

irssi - security update

Published: 6/7/2017Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving a DCC message without source nick/host, it attempts to dereference a NULL pointer. Thus, remote IRC servers can cause a crash.

Affected packages (4)

Alpine/irssifrom 0, < 1.0.3-r0
Debian/irssifrom 0, < 1.0.3-1
Debian/irssifrom 0, < 0.8.15-5+deb7u2
Debian/irssifrom 0, < 0.8.17-1+deb8u4

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-9468
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9468