CVE-2017-5196

7.5 highEPSS 5.1%

Irssi 0.8.18 before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via vectors involving strings that are not UTF8.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

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

EPSS: 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2017-03-03
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

irssi:irssi

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/06/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95310
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-45
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/06/1

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