Use After Free Affecting irssi/irssi package, versions [,1.0.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.94% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IRSSIIRSSI-2366208
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-10966  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade irssi/irssi to version 1.0.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. While updating the internal nick list, Irssi could incorrectly use the GHashTable interface and free the nick while updating it. This would then result in use-after-free conditions on each access of the hash table.

CVSS Base Scores

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