Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-15723  

Overlong nicks or targets may result in a NULL-pointer dereference in Irssi >= 0.8.17 and < 1.0.5 while splitting the message. Most IRC servers typically have length limits in place that would prevent this issue.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

Overlong nicks or targets may result in a NULL-pointer dereference in Irssi >= 0.8.17 and < 1.0.5 while splitting the message. Most IRC servers typically have length limits in place that would prevent this issue.

AVG-461 irssi 1.0.4-3 1.0.5-1 High Fixed

22 Oct 2017 ASA-201710-30 AVG-461 irssi High multiple issues

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_10.txt
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/0840eaec7bf56740029aae614e393f8cf76f6946