CVE-2010-1156

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

core/nicklist.c in Irssi before 0.8.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via vectors related to an attempted fuzzy nick match at the instant that a victim leaves a channel.

Affected products

Irssi: through 0.8.15; 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.8.4, 0.8.5 (+17)

References

http://irssi.org/news
http://irssi.org/news/ChangeLog
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041054.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127098845125270&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127110132019166&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127111071631857&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127115784314970&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127119240204394&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/39365
http://secunia.com/advisories/39620
http://secunia.com/advisories/39797

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