Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1510955
CVE-2017-15721 irssi: NULL pointer dereference due to incorrectly formatted DCC CTCP messages
Last modified: 2018-01-10 11:58:37 EST
In Irssi before 1.0.5, certain incorrectly formatted DCC CTCP messages could cause a NULL pointer dereference. This is a separate, but similar, issue relative to CVE-2017-9468. This may result in a remote denial of service. External References: https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_10.txt
Created irssi tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1510963]
Patch: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/43e44d553d44e313003cee87e6ea5e24d68b84a1
Statement: Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Extended Life Cycle phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.