| Name | CVE-2017-10966 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1089-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 867598 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| irssi (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 0.8.17-1+deb8u5 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.0.7-1~deb9u2 | fixed | |
| buster | 1.2.0-2+deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 1.2.3-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1.4.3-2 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 1.4.5-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| irssi | source | wheezy | 0.8.15-5+deb7u3 | DLA-1089-1 | ||
| irssi | source | jessie | 0.8.17-1+deb8u5 | |||
| irssi | source | stretch | 1.0.2-1+deb9u2 | |||
| irssi | source | (unstable) | 1.0.4-1 | low | 867598 |
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5e26325317c72a04c1610ad952974e206384d291