CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7045
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The format_send_to_gui function in the format parsing code in Irssi before 0.8.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and crash) via vectors involving the length of a string.
Affected configurations
• irssi irssi (<= 0.8.19)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3672 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036868 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3086-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3672 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036868 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3086-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory