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Denial of service vulnerability in irssi IRC client

Package(s):

irssi-text

CVE #(s):

Created:

August 28, 2002

Updated:

August 28, 2002

Description:

When a user attempts to join a channel that has an overly long topic description,and a specific string is appended to the topic, the irssi IRC client will crash.

Alerts:

Debian

DSA-157-1

2002-08-23

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