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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-15721: Vulnerability in Irssi

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-15721: Vulnerability in Irssi

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/22/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/22/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

In Irssi before 1.0.5, certain incorrectly formatted DCC CTCP messages could cause a NULL pointer dereference. This is a separate, but similar, issue relative to CVE-2017-9468.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-network-chat-irssi-1-0-6-0-175-3-29-0-4-0

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