CVE-2018-5206

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5206

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201801-12

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.0.6-1
debian debianbookwormfixed1.0.7-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.0.7-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.0.7-1
debian debiansidfixed1.0.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.0.7-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.