CVE-2017-15722: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In certain cases, Irssi before 1.0.5 may fail to verify that a Safe channel ID is long enough, causing reads beyond the end of the string.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Irssi Irssi: up to and including 1.0.4

Published 2017-10-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.