CVE-2002-0983: Irssi

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IRC client irssi in irssi-text before 0.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IRC channel that has a long topic followed by a certain string, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Irssi Irssi: version 0.8.4 only

Published 2002-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.