vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-15723: irssi -- security update

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Severity

5

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Oct 22, 2017

Added

Nov 4, 2017

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

Description

In Irssi before 1.0.5, overlong nicks or targets may result in a NULL pointer dereference while splitting the message.

Solution

debian-upgrade-irssi

References

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