Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-10966
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:50 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:07.858014723Z",
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