CVE-2018-7051

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2018-02-08
CWE:
CWE-125
Bugzilla:
1546275: CVE-2018-7051 irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names
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.

Find out more about CVE-2018-7051 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 3.7
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 irssi Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 irssi Affected

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