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CVE-2017-5356 (GCVE-0-2017-5356)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-03 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:55
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Summary
Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a string containing a formatting sequence (%[) without a closing bracket (]).
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-01-05 00:00
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