Upstream information

CVE-2017-9469 at MITRE

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.

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 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1043052 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 12
  • irssi >= 1.0.3-25.1
  • irssi-devel >= 1.0.3-25.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2017-668
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: Wed Jun 7 05:26:43 2017
CVE page last modified: Wed Oct 26 20:40:06 2022