Upstream information

CVE-2009-1959 at MITRE

Description

Off-by-one error in the event_wallops function in fe-common/irc/fe-events.c in irssi 0.8.13 allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an empty command, which triggers a one-byte buffer under-read and a one-byte buffer underflow.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 510837 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:012, published Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +0000

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`irssi >= 0.8.20-3.1` `irssi-devel >= 0.8.20-3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10455

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:50:53 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 20:57:00 2024