USN-3086-1: Irssi vulnerabilities
Publication date
21 September 2016
Overview
Irssi could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Releases
Packages
- irssi - terminal based IRC client
Details
Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet discovered that the format parsing code
in Irssi did not properly verify 24bit color codes. A remote attacker could
use this to cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-7044)
Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet discovered that a buffer overflow existed
in the format parsing code in Irssi. A remote attacker could use this to
cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-7045)
Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet discovered that the format parsing code
in Irssi did not properly verify 24bit color codes. A remote attacker could
use this to cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-7044)
Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet discovered that a buffer overflow existed
in the format parsing code in Irssi. A remote attacker could use this to
cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-7045)
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 | ||
---|---|---|---|
16.04 xenial | irssi – 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.2 |
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