CVE-2017-5193

Description

The nickcmp function in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a message without a nick.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-45

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00022.html

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95310

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/06/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3