CVE-2006-0458: Irssi

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DCC ACCEPT command handler in irssi before 0.8.9+0.8.10rc5-0ubuntu4.1 in Ubuntu Linux, and possibly other distributions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain crafted arguments in a DCC command.

Affected products

• Irssi Irssi: version 0.8.9 only; version 0.8.10rc5 only

Published 2006-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.