USN-3086-1

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    USN-3086-1

    Published: 21 Sept 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: irssi vulnerabilities

    Details: Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet discovered that the format parsing code in Irssi did not properly verify 24bit color codes. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-7044) Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the format parsing code in Irssi. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-7045)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3086-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7044, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7045

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: irssi

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.8.19-1ubuntu1.2

    Affected versions

    0.8.17-1ubuntu1
    0.8.17-1ubuntu2
    0.8.18-1ubuntu1
    0.8.19-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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