CVE-2017-5196

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Irssi 0.8.18 before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via vectors involving strings that are not UTF8.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/06/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95310Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-45Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/06/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95310Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-45Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Mar 3, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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