Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-15722  

In certain cases Irssi may fail to verify that a Safe channel ID is long enough, causing reads beyond the end of the string. To be exploited, this issue requires a broken IRCd or control over the IRCd.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

In certain cases Irssi may fail to verify that a Safe channel ID is long enough, causing reads beyond the end of the string. To be exploited, this issue requires a broken IRCd or control over the IRCd.

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/45dfe2ba3889c5dc23a9bea3214f158cc651a043