High
Security advisory
Irssi 0.8.17 before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted ANSI x8 color code.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-5195
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Irssi 0.8.17 before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted ANSI x8 color code.
osv:CVE-2017-5195
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5195",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "CVE-2017-5195",
"summary": "Irssi 0.8.17 before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted ANSI x8 color code.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-5195",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
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"metrics": [
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"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
}
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"type": "GIT",
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}
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:17.373830834Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-45",
"https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 429554,
"published_at": "2017-03-03T15:59:00.757+00:00"
}