CVE
- Id
- 5371
- CVE No.
- CVE-2002-0983
- Status
- Candidate
- 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.
- Phase
- Modified (20050528)
- Votes
- ACCEPT(3) Armstrong, Baker, Cole | MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(4) Christey, Cox, Foat, Wall
- Comments
- Christey> BUGTRAQ:20020619 DoS on irssi 0.8.4 | URL:http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/277686 | XF:irssi-long-topic-dos(9395) | URL:http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9395.php | Frech> XF:irssi-long-topic-dos(9395)