Description
Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a string containing a formatting sequence (%[) without a closing bracket (]).
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00022.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96581 ↗
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/55-Fuzzing-Irssi-with-Perl-Scripts.html ↗
- https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/8 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/13/2 ↗