CVE-2018-5206 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

When the channel topic is set without specifying a sender, Irssi before 1.0.6 may dereference a NULL pointer.

Published: 2018-01-06

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:irssi:irssi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-4162-1	irssi security update
EUVD	EUVD-2018-16991	When the channel topic is set without specifying a sender, Irssi before 1.0.6 may dereference a NULL pointer.
Ubuntu USN	USN-3527-1	Irssi vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00749.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_01.txt
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5206
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5206
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4162

History

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Subscriptions

Debian Debian Linux

Irssi Irssi

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-01-06T16:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T05:26:47.203Z

Reserved: 2018-01-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-5206

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-01-06T16:29:00.297

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:08:20.020

Link: CVE-2018-5206

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-01-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-5206 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-476

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