CVE-2018-5206
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.58%
Description
When the channel topic is set without specifying a sender, Irssi before 1.0.6 may dereference a NULL pointer.
How to fix CVE-2018-5206
To remediate CVE-2018-5206, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/irssi—upgrade to 1.0.6-r0 or later
- Debian/irssi—upgrade to 1.0.7-1 or later
Is CVE-2018-5206 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.0.6-r0
- from 0, < 1.0.7-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |