vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3086-1 (CVE-2016-7044): Irssi vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 21, 2016
Added
Jul 1, 2017
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

Description

Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet discovered that the format parsing code
in Irssi did not properly verify 24bit color codes. A remote attacker could
use this to cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-7044)

Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet discovered that a buffer overflow existed
in the format parsing code in Irssi. A remote attacker could use this to
cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-7045)

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-irssi
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