CVE-2007-5226

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2007-5226 · Published 05/10/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-5226 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting dircproxy (dircproxy).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
dircproxy dircproxy	`≤ 1.2.0`	No fix yet

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.

References

dircproxy.securiweb.net/ticket/89
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi

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