CVE-2017-9469: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving certain incorrectly quoted DCC files, it tries to find the terminating quote one byte before the allocated memory. Thus, remote attackers might be able to cause a crash.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Irssi Irssi: up to and including 1.0.2

Published 2017-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.