PT-2017-16451 · Irssi+2 · Irssi+2

Published 2017-01-13 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-5356

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 an out-of-bounds read and crash, via a string containing a formatting sequence (%[) without a closing bracket (]).

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

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1045

CVE-2017-5356

DLA-1217-1

MGASA-2017-0018

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10865-1

USN-3184-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Irssi

Ubuntu

References · 61

• 🔥 https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/55-Fuzzing-Irssi-with-Perl-Scripts.html · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-5356 · Vendor Advisory
• 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://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5356 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5356 · 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
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5195 · Security Note