Bug 1473232 – CVE-2017-10965 irssi: NULL pointer dereference when receiving messages with invalid time stamps

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Bug 1473232 - (CVE-2017-10965) CVE-2017-10965 irssi: NULL pointer dereference when receiving messages with invalid time stamps

Summary:	CVE-2017-10965 irssi: NULL pointer dereference when receiving messages with i...

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2017-10965

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Blocks:	1473235
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Reported:	2017-07-20 05:33 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-07-24 03:39 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	irssi 1.0.4
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Last Closed:	2017-07-24 03:39:17 EDT
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-20 05:33:55 EDT

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

Upstream patch:

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

External References:

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

Comment 1 Cedric Buissart 2017-07-24 03:38:19 EDT

Lowering severity based on the fact that the specially crafted message has to be sent by the IRC server.

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