CVE-2002-1840

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

irssi IRC client 0.8.4, when downloaded after 14-March-2002, could contain a backdoor in the configuration file, which allows remote attackers to access the system.

irssi IRC client 0.8.4, when downloaded after 14-March-2002, could contain a backdoor in the configuration file, which allows remote attackers to access the system.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 22 years ago

2002-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:31:00

Affected Software

Irssi 0.8.4

0.8.4

References

20020525 irssi backdoored.

http://real.irssi.org/?page=backdoor

Vendor Advisory

irssi-backdoor-version(9176)

4831

Patch

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