Executive Summary

Summary
Title Irssi vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3086-1 First vendor Publication 2016-09-21
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-09-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Irssi could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description: - 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)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
irssi 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.2

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3086-1
CVE-2016-7044, CVE-2016-7045

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irssi/0.8.19-1ubuntu1.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3086-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 25
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-11-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-0cadb1feae.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-2524.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-0551065fe0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-a64716084e.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2016-265-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3672.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_e78261e4803d11e6a59014dae9d210b8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3086-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2016-09-28 21:26:02
  • Multiple Updates
2016-09-27 21:23:49
  • Multiple Updates
2016-09-23 13:25:22
  • Multiple Updates
2016-09-22 00:22:05
  • First insertion