CVE-2017-5194 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Use-after-free vulnerability in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid nick message.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0187.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Irssi	Irssi

Configuration 1 [-]

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

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-1217-1	irssi security update
EUVD	EUVD-2017-14302	Use-after-free vulnerability in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid nick message.
Ubuntu USN	USN-3184-1	Irssi vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/06/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95310
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00022.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5194
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-45
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5194

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-03-03T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:55:35.459Z

Reserved: 2017-01-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-5194

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-03-03T15:59:00.710

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

Link: CVE-2017-5194

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-01-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-5194 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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