CVE-2017-5356

Description

Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a string containing a formatting sequence (%[) without a closing bracket (]).

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00022.html

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt

https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/55-Fuzzing-Irssi-with-Perl-Scripts.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96581

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/13/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3