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CVE-2017-10965

An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. When receiving messages with invalid time stamps, Irssi would try to dereference a NULL pointer.

Published

2017-07-07T14:29:00.283

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 9.8 (CRITICAL)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-476

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	irssi	irssi	≤ 1.0.3	Yes

References

https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5e26325317c72a04c1610ad952974e206384d291 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016 ([email protected])
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5e26325317c72a04c1610ad952974e206384d291 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)