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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-10966: irssi security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-10966: irssi security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/07/2017
Created
09/25/2019
Added
09/24/2019
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. While updating the internal nick list, Irssi could incorrectly use the GHashTable interface and free the nick while updating it. This would then result in use-after-free conditions on each access of the hash table.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-irssi

References

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