Vulnerability CVE-2016-7045
Published: 2016-09-27

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Irssi -> Irssi 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3672
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036868
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3086-1
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt
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