Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-5206

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - When the channel topic is set without specifying a sender, Irssi before 1.0.6 may dereference a NULL pointer. CVE-2018-5206 Note that Nessus relies on the...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2018-0069)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for irssi (EulerOS-SA-2019-2161)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for irssi (EulerOS-SA-2019-2595)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : irssi (EulerOS-SA-2019-2161)

According to the versions of the irssi package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - When using an incomplete variable argument, Irssi before 1.0.6 may access data beyond the end of the string.CVE-2018-5207 - When the channel topic...

Debian DSA-4162-1 : irssi - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Irssi, a terminal-based IRC client which can result in denial of service. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4162. The text itself is copyright C...

Fedora 27 : irssi (2018-c4e4935e01)

This is new version of irssi. It contains security fixes for CVE-2018-5205 CVE-2018-5206 CVE-2018-5207 CVE-2018-5208 . Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

Fedora 26 : irssi (2018-bc08435961)

This is new version of irssi. It contains security fixes for CVE-2018-5205 CVE-2018-5206 CVE-2018-5207 CVE-2018-5208. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

Fedora Update for irssi FEDORA-2018-bc08435961

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Updated irssi packages fix security vulnerabilities

Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled incomplete escape codes. If a user were tricked into using malformed commands or opening malformed files, an attacker could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service CVE-2018-5205. Joseph Bisch discovered that...

openSUSE Security Update : irssi (openSUSE-2018-18)

This update for irssi to version 1.0.6 fixes several issues that may affect the stability of irssi : - CVE-2018-5205: Data access beyond the end of the string when using incomplete escape codes - CVE-2018-5206: NULL pointer dereference when the channel topic is set without specifying a sender -...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-5206

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

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5206

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

CVE-2018-5206

CVE-2018-5206 affects Irssi prior to 1.0.6. The vulnerability occurs when the channel topic is set without specifying a sender, allowing a NULL pointer dereference. Public references in the connected documents confirm the issue as a denial-of-service exposure in Irssi before the fixed version. Th...