CVE-2002-0983

Published Sep 24, 2002

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:irssi:irssi:0.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "CC775325-9EA0-4E13-A03A-BD315E10C056"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References