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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-10966

An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. While updating the internal nick list, Irssi could incorrectly use the GHashTable interface and free the nick while updating it. This would then result in use-after-free conditions on each access of the hash table.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:50 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2017-10966

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 Jul 2017, 14:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. While updating the internal nick list, Irssi could incorrectly use the GHashTable interface and free the nick while updating it. This would then result in use-after-free conditions on each access of the hash table.

osv:CVE-2017-10966
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-10966",
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. While updating the internal nick list, Irssi could incorrectly use the GHashTable interface and free the nick while updating it. This would then result in use-after-free conditions on each access of the hash table.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:07.858014723Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016",
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        "https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380075,
  "published_at": "2017-07-07T14:29:00.36+00:00"
}