On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 07:51:34PM +0000, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > CVE-2017-15721 > > Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi does not properly handle > incorrectly formatted DCC CTCP messages. A malicious IRC server can > take advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a > denial of service.
Since DCC stands for Direct Client to Client, the IRC server is not involved and it can probably be triggered by an other user. Kurt