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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: USN-800-1 Critical: Irssi Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey July 13, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu advisory 800-1 highlights a severe vulnerability in the irssi service that could result in a denial of service. Users should update the service immediately to reduce risks
It was discovered that irssi did not properly check the length of stringswhen processing WALLOPS messages

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