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CVE-2007-5226

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-10-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

irc_server.c in dircproxy 1.2.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via an ACTION command without a parameter, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated using a blank /me message from irssi.

Affected products

• Dircproxy: through 1.2.0

References

• http://dircproxy.securiweb.net/ticket/89
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319301
• http://dircproxy.securiweb.net/ticket/89
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319301

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