vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3184-1 (CVE-2017-5356): Irssi vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 3, 2017
Added
Feb 2, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a string containing a formatting sequence (%[) without a closing bracket (]).

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-irssi
Title
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