irssi off-by-one buffer overflow
Published:		17.06.2009
Source:		BUGTRAQ
SecurityVulns ID:		9997
Type:		client
Level:		3/10
Description:		Off-by-one overflow on server data processing.

Affected:		IRSSI : irssi 0.8
CVE:		CVE-2009-1959 (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.)

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MANDRIVA, [ MDVSA-2009:133 ] irssi (17.06.2009)

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