vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-5196: irssi -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 3, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Irssi 0.8.18 before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via vectors involving strings that are not UTF8.

Solution

debian-upgrade-irssi
Title
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