vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-10966)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 7, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

While updating the internal nick list, Irssi may incorrectly use the GHashTable interface and free the nick while updating it. This will then result in use-after-free conditions on each access of the hash table. Note that this should not happen with a conforming IRC server, so it requires control over the IRC server or a position of man-in-the-middle to be exploitable.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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