Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5194  

A use after free vulnerability has been discovered when receiving an invalid nick message potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

A use after free vulnerability has been discovered when receiving an invalid nick message potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

AVG-127 irssi 0.8.20-1 0.8.21-1 High Fixed

11 Jan 2017 ASA-201701-14 AVG-127 irssi High multiple issues

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/05/2
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/6c6c42e3d1b49d90aacc0b67f8540471cae02a1d