CVE-2017-10965

Publication date 7 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
irssi	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 0.8.20-2ubuntu2.2
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.5
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.8.15-5ubuntu3.3

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
irssi	Upstream: 5e26325

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3465-1
Irssi vulnerabilities
26 October 2017

Other references