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Published: 24/09/2002 Updated: 11/07/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

IRC client irssi in irssi-text prior to 0.8.4 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IRC channel that has a long topic followed by a certain string, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

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The IRC client irssi is vulnerable to a denial of service condition The problem occurs when a user attempts to join a channel that has an overly long topic description When a certain string is appended to the topic, irssi will crash This problem has been fixed in version 084-31 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 085- ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-157 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5055 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SN-02%3A05.asc https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9395 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-157

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