PT-2002-1990 · Irssi · Irssi

Published 2002-08-24 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2002-0983

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: irssi versions prior to 0.8.4

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by utilizing an IRC channel with a long topic followed by a specific string. This could potentially trigger a buffer overflow.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 0.8.4, update to version 0.8.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-0983

DSA-157

Affected Products

Irssi

References · 5

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/5055 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0983 · Security Note
• ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SN-02%3A05.asc · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2002/dsa-157 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9395 · Note