CVE-2018-7050: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1. A NULL pointer dereference occurs for an "empty" nick.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Irssi Irssi: before 1.0.7 (fixed in 1.0.7); version 1.1.0 only

Published 2018-02-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.