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high 7.5

CVE-2017-9468 json

In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving a DCC message without source nick/host, it attempts to dereference a NULL pointer.

published 2017-06-07 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18400

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.7%
EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving a DCC message without source nick/host, it attempts to dereference a NULL pointer. Thus, remote IRC servers can cause a crash.

Patch / fix

  • irssi Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9468

  • irssi Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.8.15-5ubuntu3.2
  • irssi Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9468

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 1.0.3-25.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10865-1openSUSE-SU-2017:1505-1openSUSE-SU-2017:1515-1

  • irssi Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +16 more 1.0.3-r0
  • irssi Alpine 3.5, Alpine 3.4, Alpine 3.3 0.8.21-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-9468

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 1.0.3-1

arch linux advisories AVG-293

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-2017-9468 updated cvss 3.7

irssi: Null pointer dereference while receiving a DCC message without source nick/host

  • 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

3.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% 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

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