Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-3862-1

USN-3862-1: Irssi vulnerability

Publication date

17 January 2019

Overview

Irssi could be made to crash or execute arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted input.

Releases

18.10 18.04 LTS 16.04 LTS 14.04 LTS

Packages

irssi - terminal based IRC client

Details

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service
or to execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart Irssi to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
18.10 cosmic	irssi – 1.1.1-1ubuntu1.1
18.04 bionic	irssi – 1.0.5-1ubuntu4.1
16.04 xenial	irssi – 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.8
14.04 trusty	irssi – 0.8.15-5ubuntu3.6

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References

CVE-2019-5882

CVE-2019-5882