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.

• How can I get the fixes?
• What do statuses mean?

References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

• USN-800-1
• irssi vulnerability
• 13 July 2009

Other references

• http://xorl.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/irssi-event_wallops-off-by-one-readwrite/
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1959