Executive Summary

Summary
Title irssi security update
Informations
Name DSA-3885 First vendor Publication 2017-06-18
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2017-06-18
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Irssi, a terminal based IRC client. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2017-9468

Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi does not properly handle DCC messages without source nick/host. A malicious IRC server can take advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

CVE-2017-9469

Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi does not properly handle receiving incorrectly quoted DCC files. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.17-1+deb8u4.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.2-1+deb9u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your irssi packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3885

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
50 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 25
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-12-01 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1283.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-01 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1284.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-05 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1088.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-2f30e218e7.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-10 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-75c571778e.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-19 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3885.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-13 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3317-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-09 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2017-158-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-09 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-668.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-08 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_165e89514be011e7a5390050569f7e80.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-06-20 13:23:56
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-18 13:21:52
  • First insertion