Upstream information

CVE-2017-15722 at MITRE

Description

In certain cases, Irssi before 1.0.5 may fail to verify that a Safe channel ID is long enough, causing reads beyond the end of the string.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.9
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1064540 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2017:2832-1 openSUSE-SU-2017:2835-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 12
  • irssi >= 1.0.5-32.1
  • irssi-devel >= 1.0.5-32.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2017-1189
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • irssi >= 1.2.3-2.4
  • irssi-devel >= 1.2.3-2.4
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10865

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Jun 7 05:26:42 2017
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 19:13:41 2025