vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15721: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 22, 2017
Added
Feb 21, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In Irssi before 1.0.5, certain incorrectly formatted DCC CTCP messages could cause a NULL pointer dereference. This is a separate, but similar, issue relative to CVE-2017-9468.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-irssi
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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