CVE-2017-10965
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 3.4% (pctl 89)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 3.44% — more likely to be exploited than 89% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-476 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2017-07-07 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| irssi | irssi |
References
- https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5e26325317c72a04c1610ad952974e206384d291
- https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016
- https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5e26325317c72a04c1610ad952974e206384d291
- https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016
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