Executive Summary

Summary
Title irssi vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-259-1 First vendor Publication 2006-03-01
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2006-03-01
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 the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

The following packages are affected:

irssi-text

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 0.8.9+0.8.10rc5-0ubuntu4.1. After a standard system upgrade you need to restart irssi to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

A Denial of Service vulnerability was discoverd in irssi. The DCC ACCEPT command handler did not sufficiently verify the remotely specified arguments. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash irssi by sending a specially crafted DCC commands.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-259-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
23598 irssi IRC Client Crafted DCC ACCEPT Message Remote DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-03-13 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-259-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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