PT-2017-18942 · Irssi+2 · Irssi+2

Joseph Bisch · Published 2017-06-06 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-9469

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 1.0.3

Description The issue arises when Irssi receives certain incorrectly quoted DCC files, causing it to attempt to find the terminating quote one byte before the allocated memory. This could allow remote attackers to cause a crash.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0.3, update to version 1.0.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-1665

ALT-PU-2020-3488

ALT-PU-2024-3802

CVE-2017-9469

DLA-1088-1

DSA-3885-1

MGASA-2017-0185

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:1505-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:1515-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10865-1

USN-3317-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Irssi

Ubuntu

References · 84

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7052 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/06/4 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3317-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3317-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2024-3802 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15721 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15723 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9469 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7054 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10965 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15227 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3885-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-03213 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5206 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9469 · Security Note