Vulnerabilities > CVE-2002-0983 - Denial Of Service vulnerability in Irssi 0.8.4
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
IRC client irssi in irssi-text before 0.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IRC channel that has a long topic followed by a certain string, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Nessus
| NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | DEBIAN_DSA-157.NASL |
| description | The IRC client irssi is vulnerable to a denial of service condition. The problem occurs when a user attempts to join a channel that has an overly long topic description. When a certain string is appended to the topic, irssi will crash. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 14994 |
| published | 2004-09-29 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/14994 |
| title | Debian DSA-157-1 : irssi-text - denial of service |