CVE-2018-7052

HIGH

irssi < 1.0.7 and 1.1.x < 1.1.1 - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. When the number of windows exceeds the available space, a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference would occur.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4162

Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_02.txt

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/02/15/1

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3590-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0235

EPSS Percentile 81.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (6)

canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 17.10

debian/debian_linux 9.0

irssi/irssi 1.1.0

irssi/irssi < 1.0.7

Published Feb 15, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026