PT-2017-16378 · Irssi+2 · Irssi+2

Published 2017-01-06 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-5193

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Irssi versions prior to 0.8.21

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. This occurs when a message without a nick is processed by the nickcmp function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.8.21, update to version 0.8.21 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1045

CVE-2017-5193

DLA-1217-1

MGASA-2017-0018

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:0093-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:0094-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10865-1

USN-3184-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Irssi

Ubuntu

References · 66

• https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5196 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0018.html · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5194 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3184-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5193 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-45 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5196 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7553 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5194 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5193 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-5193 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5195 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5195 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5193 · Vendor Advisory