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CVE-2018-7051

irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.7

CVSS 3.0

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Published · February 8, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

An out of bound read was found in Irssi, version 0.8.7 and later, when dealing with malformed theme strings. An attacker could trigger the vulnerability by using specific nick names that could potentially cause a crash in the application.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read