Denial of Service Vulnerability in Irssi's format_send_to_gui Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Irssi's format_send_to_gui Function

CVE-2016-7045 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The format_send_to_gui function in the format parsing code in Irssi before 0.8.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and crash) via vectors involving the length of a string.

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