| Name | CVE-2017-15723 |
| Description | In Irssi before 1.0.5, overlong nicks or targets may result in a NULL pointer dereference while splitting the message. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4016-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 879521 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| irssi (PTS) | bullseye | 1.2.3-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.4.3-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.4.5-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - irssi <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 0.8.17)
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_10.txt
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/43e44d553d44e313003cee87e6ea5e24d68b84a1