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vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-7051: irssi: out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings with certain nick names

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 15, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. Certain nick names could result in out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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