CVE-2016-7045: Buffer Overflow
First published: Tue Sep 27 2016(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Irssi Irssi | <=0.8.19 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =16.04 |
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- agent/tags
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- agent/event
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- vendor/irssi
- canonical/irssi irssi
- version/irssi irssi/0.8.19
- vendor/debian
- canonical/debian debian linux
- version/debian debian linux/8.0
- vendor/canonical
- canonical/canonical ubuntu linux
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/16.04