CVE-2002-0983

high

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9395

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-157

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-09-24

Updated: 2017-07-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High