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CVE-2017-10965 (GCVE-0-2017-10965)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-07 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:57
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Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-07-07 00:00
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