FreeBSD: VID-E78261E4-803D-11E6-A590-14DAE9D210B8 (CVE-2016-7045): irssi -- heap corruption and missing boundary checks
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
09/21/2016
07/25/2018
11/14/2016
05/07/2019
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.
Solution(s)
- freebsd-upgrade-package-irssi
- freebsd-upgrade-package-zh-irssi
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