High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. When the number of windows exceeds the available space, a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference would occur.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-7052
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. When the number of windows exceeds the available space, a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference would occur.
osv:CVE-2018-7052
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:22.405604420Z",
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"references": [
"https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_02.txt",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3590-1/",
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