PT-2017-16381 · Irssi+2 · Irssi+2

Published 2017-01-06 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-5196

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 0.8.18 through 0.8.20

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an out-of-bounds read and crash, via vectors involving strings that are not UTF8.

Recommendations For Irssi versions 0.8.18 through 0.8.20, update to version 0.8.21 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1045

CVE-2017-5196

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 · 65

• 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://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5196 · Vendor Advisory
• 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-2017-5196 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5196 · Vendor Advisory