CVE-2017-9469

Publication date 6 June 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
irssi 17.04 zesty
Fixed 0.8.20-2ubuntu2.1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 0.8.19-1ubuntu2.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.4
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.8.15-5ubuntu3.2

Patch details

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Package Patch details
irssi

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

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

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