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CVE-2016-7045

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-09-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The format_send_to_gui function in the format parsing code in Irssi before 0.8.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and crash) via vectors involving the length of a string.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Irssi: through 0.8.19

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3672
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036868
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3086-1
• https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3672
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036868
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3086-1
• https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt

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