CVE-2018-5206

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

• CWE-476

• https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_01.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4162Third Party Advisory
• https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_01.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4162Third Party Advisory

Published

Jan 6, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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