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high 7.5

CVE-2017-15228 json

Irssi before 1.0.5, when installing themes with unterminated colour formatting sequences, may access data beyond the end of the string.

published 2017-10-22 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-6688

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Irssi before 1.0.5, when installing themes with unterminated colour formatting sequences, may access data beyond the end of the string.

Patch / fix

  • irssi Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15228

  • irssi Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.8.15-5ubuntu3.3
  • irssi Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.5

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15228

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • irssi openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.2.3-2.4
  • irssi Package Hub 12 1.0.5-32.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10865-1openSUSE-SU-2017:2832-1openSUSE-SU-2017:2835-1

  • irssi Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +15 more 1.0.5-r0
  • irssi Alpine 3.6 1.0.6-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-15228

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • irssi Arch Linux 1.0.5-1

arch linux advisories AVG-461

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-15228 updated cvss 7.5

irssi: Out-of-bounds access when installing themes with unterminated colour formatting sequences

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 irssi Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 irssi
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.