7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-5196

Published: 03/03/2017 Updated: 19/03/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Irssi 0.8.18 prior to 0.8.21 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via vectors involving strings that are not UTF8.

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Several security issues were fixed in Irssi ...
Debian Bug report logs - #850403 irssi: CVE-2017-5193 CVE-2017-5194 CVE-2017-5195 CVE-2017-5196 Package: src:irssi; Maintainer for src:irssi is Rhonda D'Vine <rhonda@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 06:33:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: fixed-upstream, patch, ...
An out of bounds read has been discovered in certain incomplete character sequences leading to application crash ...