Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-7191 - Use After Free vulnerability in Irssi
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The netjoin processing in Irssi 1.x before 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_06F931C00BE011E7B4BF5404A68AD561.NASL description The irssi project reports : Use after free while producing list of netjoins (CWE-416). This issue was found and reported to us by APic. This issue usually leads to segmentation faults. Targeted code execution should be difficult. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 97807 published 2017-03-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97807 title FreeBSD : irssi -- use-after-free potential code execution (06f931c0-0be0-11e7-b4bf-5404a68ad561) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2017-1117.NASL description According to the version of the irssi package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - The netjoin processing in Irssi 1.x before 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.i1/4^CVE-2017-7191i1/4%0 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2017-07-10 plugin id 101307 published 2017-07-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/101307 title EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : irssi (EulerOS-SA-2017-1117) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2017-1113.NASL description According to the version of the irssi package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - The netjoin processing in Irssi 1.x before 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.(CVE-2017-7191) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2017-06-12 plugin id 100723 published 2017-06-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100723 title EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : irssi (EulerOS-SA-2017-1113)