Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Irssi, a terminal based
IRC client The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies
the following problems:
CVE-2017-10965
Brian geeknik Carpenter of Geeknik Labs discovered that Irssi does
not properly handle receiving messages with invalid time stamps A
malicious IRC serve ...
When receiving messages with invalid time stamps, Irssi would try to dereference a NULL pointer This requires control over the IRC server, or a position of man-in-the-middle to be exploited ...