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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.020 (79.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 79.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Irssi — versions 0.8.4
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9395 (vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-157 (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/5055 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)