{"id":"CVE-2017-10965","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-10965","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:19:39.562Z","title":"An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4.","description":"An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. When receiving messages with invalid time stamps, Irssi would try to dereference a NULL pointer.","published":"2017-07-07T14:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:01:00.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["irssi/irssi"],"epss":{"score":0.03443,"percentile":0.8893,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.44%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5e26325317c72a04c1610ad952974e206384d291","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/5e26325317c72a04c1610ad952974e206384d291","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10965","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}