CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-1959
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-06-08
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• irssi irssi 0.8.13
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.irssi.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=662 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35685 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35812 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36152 secunia.com
- http://www.irssi.org/ChangeLog Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:133 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/29/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35399 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022410 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-800-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1596 www.vupen.com
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/irssi-event_wallops-off-by-one-readwrite/ Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51184 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00146.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugs.irssi.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=662 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35685 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35812 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36152 secunia.com
- http://www.irssi.org/ChangeLog Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:133 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/29/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35399 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022410 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-800-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1596 www.vupen.com
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/irssi-event_wallops-off-by-one-readwrite/ Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51184 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00146.html www.redhat.com