CVE-2017-10965

critical

Description

An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. When receiving messages with invalid time stamps, Irssi would try to dereference a NULL pointer.

References

https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5e26325317c72a04c1610ad952974e206384d291

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2017-07-07

Updated: 2017-11-05

Type: CWE-476

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: CRITICAL