CVE-2017-5194

NameCVE-2017-5194
DescriptionUse-after-free vulnerability in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid nick message.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1217-1
Debian Bugs850403

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
irssi (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)0.8.17-1+deb8u5fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1.0.7-1~deb9u2fixed
buster1.2.0-2+deb10u1fixed
bullseye1.2.3-1fixed
bookworm1.4.3-2fixed
sid, trixie1.4.5-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
irssisourcewheezy0.8.15-5+deb7u4DLA-1217-1
irssisourcejessie0.8.17-1+deb8u3
irssisource(unstable)0.8.21-1850403

Notes

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/05/2
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/6c6c42e3d1b49d90aacc0b67f8540471cae02a1d
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt

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