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CVE-2018-7050 (GCVE-0-2018-7050)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-15 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:17
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. A NULL pointer dereference occurs for an "empty" nick.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4162 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_02.txt x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/02/15/1 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3590-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2018-02-15 00:00
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