https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03843en_us

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-15

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain empty nick names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-7050)

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain nick names.
An attacker could possibly use this to access sensitive information.
(CVE-2018-7051)

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled an increase in the number of windows. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-7052)

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-7053)

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain disconnections. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-7054).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

CVE-2018-7073

LOW

Description

References

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

CVSS v3.0

Vulnerable Software

Configuration 1

Configuration 2

Tenable Plugins

high