vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2016-7045: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 27, 2016
Added
Oct 13, 2016
Modified
Feb 4, 2022

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.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-irssisuse-upgrade-irssi-devel
Title
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