Just so you know.. ----- Forwarded message from Ripe <ripe at 7a69ezine.org> ----- From: Ripe <ripe at 7a69ezine.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 06:07:58 +0200 To: bugtraq at securityfocus.com Subject: DoS on irssi 0.8.4 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.20 * DoS on irssi 0.8.4 (current version) * 1. Aplication description: Irssi is a modular IRC client for UNIX systems. It runs on text mode user interface, or on graphic mode user using GTK+. You can donwload irssi (and get more information about it) from official website, http://www.irssi.org 2. Problem description: The current version 0.8.4 has a little problem, that can crash it. A DoS is produced when join to chanel that contains a long topic with "\x1b\x5b\x30\x6d\x0d\x0a" at the end, or when youre on a chanel and someone change topic to it. 3. Patch: Irssi developers has been warned, and 0.8.5 will be released early. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ System Administrator | http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. | "I got a wife and kids too but you don't see me out here stealing Imperial Droids now do ya?" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020619/6885cc6e/attachment.pgp