CVE-2017-9468
irssi - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.72%
Description
In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving a DCC message without source nick/host, it attempts to dereference a NULL pointer. Thus, remote IRC servers can cause a crash.
How to fix CVE-2017-9468
To remediate CVE-2017-9468, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/irssi—upgrade to 1.0.3-r0 or later
- Debian/irssi—upgrade to 1.0.3-1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.8.15-5+deb7u2 or later
- —upgrade to 0.8.17-1+deb8u4 or later
Is CVE-2017-9468 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 1.0.3-r0
- from 0, < 1.0.3-1
- from 0, < 0.8.15-5+deb7u2
- from 0, < 0.8.17-1+deb8u4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |