Vulnerability in Irssi

CVE-2009-1959

Off-by-one error in the event_wallops function in fe-common/irc/fe-events.c in irssi 0.8.13 allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an empty command, which triggers a one-byte buffer under-read and a one-byte buffer underflow.

EPSS: 0.084 (94.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Irssi — versions 0.8.13
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References