CVE-2017-5356 (GCVE-0-2017-5356)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-03-03 15:00
Modified
2024-08-05 14:55
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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 (]).
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