| Name | CVE-2017-15722 |
| Description | In certain cases, Irssi before 1.0.5 may fail to verify that a Safe channel ID is long enough, causing reads beyond the end of the string. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1217-1, DSA-4016-1 |
| NVD severity | medium |
| Debian Bugs | 879521 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| irssi (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch | 1.0.7-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster | 1.2.0-2 | fixed | |
| bullseye, sid | 1.2.3-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| irssi | source | wheezy | 0.8.15-5+deb7u4 | DLA-1217-1 | ||
| irssi | source | jessie | 0.8.17-1+deb8u5 | DSA-4016-1 | ||
| irssi | source | stretch | 1.0.2-1+deb9u3 | DSA-4016-1 | ||
| irssi | source | (unstable) | 1.0.5-1 | 879521 |
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_10.txt
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/43e44d553d44e313003cee87e6ea5e24d68b84a1