Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVSA-2009:133 ] irssi
LinuxSecurity.com:
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in irssi:
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
(CVE-2009-1959).
This update provides fixes for this vulnerability.
Posted in Server & Linux Security


