Use After Free Affecting irssi/irssi package, versions [,0.8.21)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.95% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IRSSIIRSSI-2366232
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-5194  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade irssi/irssi to version 0.8.21 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free vulnerability in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid nick message.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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