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Ubuntu: USN-3317-1 (CVE-2017-9469): Irssi vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 6, 2017
Added
Jun 12, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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

ubuntu-upgrade-irssi
Title
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