CVE-2017-10965 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. When receiving messages with invalid time stamps, Irssi would try to dereference a NULL pointer.

Published: 2017-07-07

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 1.5% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:irssi:irssi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-1089-1	irssi security update
Debian DSA	DSA-4016-1	irssi security update
EUVD	EUVD-2017-2603	An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. When receiving messages with invalid time stamps, Irssi would try to dereference a NULL pointer.
Ubuntu USN	USN-3465-1	Irssi vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01452.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5e26325317c72a04c1610ad952974e206384d291
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10965
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10965
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016

History

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Subscriptions

Irssi Irssi

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-07-07T14:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:57:56.737Z

Reserved: 2017-07-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-10965

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-07-07T14:29:00.283

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-10965

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-07-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-10965 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-476

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