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:

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