CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-0983
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2002-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• irssi irssi 0.8.4
References
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SN-02%3A05.asc ftp.freebsd.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-157 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5055 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9395 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SN-02%3A05.asc ftp.freebsd.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-157 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5055 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9395 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com