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CVE-2017-10965

CRITICAL

9.8

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1030%

EPSS Percentile14.59th

PublishedJul 7, 2017

Last ModifiedMay 13, 2026

Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. When receiving messages with invalid time stamps, Irssi would try to dereference a NULL pointer.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Irssi

Irssi

<= 1.0.3

References & Advisories

🔗 https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5e26325317c72a04c1610ad952974e206384d291

🔗 https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt

🔗 https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016

🔗 https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5e26325317c72a04c1610ad952974e206384d291

🔗 https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt

🔗 https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016

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