Executive Summary

Summary
Title Irssi vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3317-1 First vendor Publication 2017-06-12
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-06-12
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 17.04 - Ubuntu 16.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

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

Software Description: - irssi: terminal based IRC client

Details:

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain DCC messages. A malicious IRC server could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9468)

Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled receiving incorrectly quoted DCC files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9469)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.04:
irssi 0.8.20-2ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 16.10:
irssi 0.8.19-1ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
irssi 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
irssi 0.8.15-5ubuntu3.2

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

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3317-1
CVE-2017-9468, CVE-2017-9469

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irssi/0.8.20-2ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irssi/0.8.19-1ubuntu2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irssi/0.8.19-1ubuntu1.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irssi/0.8.15-5ubuntu3.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3317-1

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
2017-06-14 13:24:49
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-14 00:25:08
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-12 17:23:39
  • First insertion