Vulnerability in Irssi

CVE-2002-0983

IRC client irssi in irssi-text before 0.8.4 allows remote attackers 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.

EPSS: 0.020 (78.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Irssi — versions 0.8.4
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_DEBIAN, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)