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irssi-text: denial of service

Package(s):irssi-text CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0458
Created:March 2, 2006 Updated:March 8, 2006
Description: irssi-text has a remote denial of service vulnerability that is caused by incomplete verification of arguments by the DCC ACCEPT command handler. A remote attacker can crash irssi and cause a denial of service.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-259-1 2006-03-01
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