CVE-2017-5356

Name	CVE-2017-5356
Description	Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a string containing a formatting sequence (%[) without a closing bracket (]).
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-1217-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
irssi (PTS)	buster	1.2.0-2+deb10u1	fixed
	bullseye	1.2.3-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	1.4.3-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin
irssi	source	wheezy	0.8.15-5+deb7u4		DLA-1217-1
irssi	source	jessie	0.8.17-1+deb8u3
irssi	source	(unstable)	0.8.21-1	low

Notes

https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/6c6c42e3d1b49d90aacc0b67f8540471cae02a1d
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/55-Fuzzing-Irssi-with-Perl-Scripts.html
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt