CVE-2016-7045

NameCVE-2016-7045
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-3672-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
irssi (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)0.8.17-1+deb8u5fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1.0.7-1~deb9u2fixed
buster1.2.0-2+deb10u1fixed
bullseye1.2.3-1fixed
bookworm1.4.3-2fixed
sid, trixie1.4.5-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
irssisourcewheezy(not affected)
irssisourcejessie0.8.17-1+deb8u1DSA-3672-1
irssisource(unstable)0.8.20-1

Notes

[wheezy] - irssi <not-affected> (Introduced in 0.8.17-beta)
http://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt

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