Executive Summary
This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
| Informations | |||
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| Name | CVE-2009-1959 | First vendor Publication | 2009-06-07 |
| Vendor | Cve | Last vendor Modification | 2024-11-21 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
| Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores | |||
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | |||
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| Cvss Base Score | 5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Off-by-one error in the event_wallops function in fe-common/irc/fe-events.c in irssi 0.8.13 allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an empty command, which triggers a one-byte buffer under-read and a one-byte buffer underflow. |
Original Source
| Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1959 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-189 | Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13908 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13908 | ||
| Title: | USN-800-1 -- irssi vulnerability | ||
| Description: | It was discovered that irssi did not properly check the length of strings when processing WALLOPS messages. If a user connected to an IRC network where an attacker had IRC operator privileges, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | USN-800-1 CVE-2009-1959 | Version: | 5 |
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 8.10 | Product(s): | irssi |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
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| Application | 1 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
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| 2010-06-25 | Name : Fedora Update for irssi FEDORA-2010-6618 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2010_6618_irssi_fc11.nasl |
| 2009-12-14 | Name : Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:133-1 (irssi) File : nvt/mdksa_2009_133_1.nasl |
| 2009-09-15 | Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200909-13 (irssi) File : nvt/glsa_200909_13.nasl |
| 2009-09-02 | Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-7004 (irssi) File : nvt/fcore_2009_7004.nasl |
| 2009-08-17 | Name : Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-7012 (irssi) File : nvt/fcore_2009_7012.nasl |
| 2009-07-29 | Name : Ubuntu USN-799-1 (dbus) File : nvt/ubuntu_799_1.nasl |
| 2009-07-29 | Name : Ubuntu USN-800-1 (irssi) File : nvt/ubuntu_800_1.nasl |
| 2009-07-29 | Name : Ubuntu USN-801-1 (tiff) File : nvt/ubuntu_801_1.nasl |
| 2009-07-29 | Name : Ubuntu USN-802-1 (apache2) File : nvt/ubuntu_802_1.nasl |
| 2009-07-06 | Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:012 File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_012.nasl |
| 2009-06-23 | Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:133 (irssi) File : nvt/mdksa_2009_133.nasl |
| 2009-06-19 | Name : Irssi Off-by-one Read/Write DoS Vulnerability (Linux) File : nvt/gb_irssi_dos_vul_lin.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 54977 | irssi fe-common/irc/fe-events.c event_wallops Function Off-by-one Underflow DoS |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2009-09-14 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-200909-13.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-09-02 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2009-7004.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-08-04 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2009-7012.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-07-21 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_0_irssi-090615.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-07-21 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_1_irssi-090615.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-07-14 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-800-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-06-17 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-133.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-06-17 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_irssi-6304.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Sources (Detail)
Alert History
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| 2017-08-17 09:22:36 |
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| 2014-02-17 10:50:24 |
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