CVE-2018-5206 Information

Description

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

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_01.txt https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4162

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8