Upstream information

CVE-2017-9468 at MITRE

Description

In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving a DCC message without source nick/host, it attempts to dereference a NULL pointer. Thus, remote IRC servers can cause a crash.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1043051 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 1064540 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2017:1505-1 openSUSE-SU-2017:1515-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 12
  • irssi >= 1.0.3-25.1
  • irssi-devel >= 1.0.3-25.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2017-668
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • irssi >= 1.2.3-2.4
  • irssi-devel >= 1.2.3-2.4
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10865

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Jun 7 05:26:42 2017
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 23:34:35 2024