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Debian: CVE-2017-15721: irssi -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-15721: irssi -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/22/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/04/2017
Modified
02/24/2020

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(s)

  • debian-upgrade-irssi

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