vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5194: Use After Free

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 3, 2017
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-irssi
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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