CVE-2017-10966

Published: 7 July 2017

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.

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	same commit as CVE-2017-10965

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 9.8

Status

Package	Release	Status
irssi Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	artful	Not vulnerable (1.0.4-1ubuntu2)
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist (trusty was released [0.8.15-5ubuntu3.3])
	upstream	Released (1.0.4)
	xenial	Released (0.8.19-1ubuntu1.5)
	yakkety	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	zesty	Released (0.8.20-2ubuntu2.2)
	Patches: upstream: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5e26325317c72a04c1610ad952974e206384d291

References

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867598

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