vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-165e8951-4be0-11e7-a539-0050569f7e80 (CVE-2017-9469): irssi -- remote DoS

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 8, 2017
Added
Jun 8, 2017
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

Joseph Bisch reports: When receiving a DCC message without source nick/host, Irssi would attempt to dereference a NULL pointer. When receiving certain incorrectly quoted DCC files, Irssi would try to find the terminating quote one byte before the allocated memory.

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-irssi
Title
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