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Alpine: multiple irssi packages: security update to 1.0.4-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405011

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - 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. (CVE-2017-10965)

 - 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. (CVE-2017-10966)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-10965

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-10966

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 405011

Version: Revision 1.26

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 12/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-10966

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10965, CVE-2017-10966