CVE-2002-0983 Information

Description

IRC client irssi in irssi-text before 0.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IRC channel that has a long topic followed by a certain string possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

Reference

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SN-023A05.asc http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-157 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5055 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9395