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CVE-2017-9469

Publication date 6 June 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving certain incorrectly quoted DCC files, it tries to find the terminating quote one byte before the allocated memory. Thus, remote attackers might be able to cause a crash.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
irssi 17.04 zesty
Fixed 0.8.20-2ubuntu2.1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 0.8.19-1ubuntu2.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.4
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.8.15-5ubuntu3.2

Patch details

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Package Patch details
irssi

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H