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CVE-2002-0983

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

IRC client irssi in irssi-text before 0.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IRC channel that has a long topic followed by a certain string, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Irssi: 0.8.4

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-157
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5055
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9395
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-157
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5055
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9395

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