CVE-2003-1020: Irssi

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The format_send_to_gui function in formats.c for irssi before 0.8.9 allows remote IRC users to cause a denial of service (crash).

Affected products

• Irssi Irssi: version 0.8.4 only; version 0.8.5 only; version 0.8.6 only; version 0.8.7 only; version 0.8.8 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 9.1 only; version 9.2 only

Published 2004-01-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.