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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-5193: irssi security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-5193: irssi security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/03/2017
Created
09/25/2019
Added
09/24/2019
Modified
09/24/2019

Description

The nickcmp function in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a message without a nick.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-irssi

References

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