Upstream information

CVE-2017-10966 at MITRE

Description

An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. While updating the internal nick list, Irssi could incorrectly use the GHashTable interface and free the nick while updating it. This would then result in use-after-free conditions on each access of the hash table.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 9.8
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1047709 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 12
  • irssi >= 1.0.4-28.1
  • irssi-devel >= 1.0.4-28.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2017-797
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • irssi >= 1.2.3-2.4
  • irssi-devel >= 1.2.3-2.4
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA irssi-1.2.3-2.4

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jul 7 15:16:36 2017
CVE page last modified: Tue May 23 14:48:38 2023