CVE-2017-10965

Critical

Published: 07/07/2017(UTC)Translated: 14/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

An issue was discovered in Irssi before version 1.0.4, which occurs when receiving messages with invalid time stamps. In this case, Irssi attempts to dereference a NULL pointer.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash, potentially leading to service unavailability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Irssi to version 1.0.4 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

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.