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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-9469: irssi security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-9469: irssi security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/07/2017
Created
09/25/2019
Added
09/24/2019
Modified
09/24/2019

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-irssi

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