Executive Summary

Summary
Title Irssi vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-4046-1 First vendor Publication 2019-07-04
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-07-04
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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 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 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.10 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Irssi.

Software Description: - irssi: terminal based IRC client

Details:

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain disconnections. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-7054)

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-13045)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 19.04:
irssi 1.2.0-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.10:
irssi 1.1.1-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
irssi 1.0.5-1ubuntu4.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
irssi 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.9

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4046-1
CVE-2018-7054, CVE-2019-13045

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irssi/1.2.0-2ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irssi/1.1.1-1ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irssi/1.0.5-1ubuntu4.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irssi/0.8.19-1ubuntu1.9

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4046-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-416 Use After Free

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 26
Os 3
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-14 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2019-011-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-02 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4162.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-27 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-433d2dc3c7.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-27 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-cbc52e8812.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-20 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_7afc5e56156d11e895f2005056925db4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-16 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2018-046-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2019-07-04 21:18:59
  • First insertion