Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-7045: irssi crash and heap corruption vulnerabilites
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
09/27/2016
07/25/2018
09/20/2017
10/30/2017
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.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-irssi
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