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FreeBSD: VID-165E8951-4BE0-11E7-A539-0050569F7E80 (CVE-2017-9469): irssi -- remote DoS

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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
06/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/08/2017
Modified
05/03/2019

Description

In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving certain incorrectly quoted DCC files, it tries to find the terminating quote one byte before the allocated memory. Thus, remote attackers might be able to cause a crash.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-irssi

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