CVE-2006-0458

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The DCC ACCEPT command handler in irssi before 0.8.9+0.8.10rc5-0ubuntu4.1 in Ubuntu Linux, and possibly other distributions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain crafted arguments in a DCC command.

The DCC ACCEPT command handler in irssi before 0.8.9+0.8.10rc5-0ubuntu4.1 in Ubuntu Linux, and possibly other distributions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain crafted arguments in a DCC command.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-03-06 23:02:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-03 21:35:00

Affected Software

Irssi 0.8.9

0.8.9

References

19090

Patch, Vendor Advisory

16913

irssi-dcc-accept-dos(25147)

USN-259-1

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