CVE-2018-7052

Publication date 15 February 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
irssi 17.10 artful
Fixed 1.0.4-1ubuntu2.3
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.7
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.8.15-5ubuntu3.5

Patch details

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Package Patch details
irssi

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

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

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