CVE-2017-15722
medium
CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.9
Description
In certain cases, Irssi before 1.0.5 may fail to verify that a Safe channel ID is long enough, causing reads beyond the end of the string.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 1.0.5-1 | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.0.5-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.0.5-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.0.5-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.0.5-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.0.5-1 |
| debian | 7.0 | affected | |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| debian | 9.0 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| irssi | irssi | {"endIncluding":"1.0.4"} | |
References
- https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201710-30
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/22/4
- https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_10.txt
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00022.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15722
CWEs
CWE-125
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.