CVE-2016-7045

HIGH

Irssi < 0.8.19 - Denial of Service via Format String Length Handling

Title source: llm

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.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3672

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036868

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3086-1

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0471

EPSS Percentile 90.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (3)

canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04

debian/debian_linux 8.0

irssi/irssi < 0.8.19

Published Sep 27, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026