Executive Summary

Summary
Title Irssi vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4119-1 First vendor Publication 2019-09-03
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-09-03
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

Summary:

Irssi could be made to crash or execute arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted CAP request.

Software Description: - irssi: terminal based IRC client

Details:

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain CAP requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 19.04:
irssi 1.2.0-2ubuntu1.2

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4119-1
CVE-2019-15717

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irssi/1.2.0-2ubuntu1.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4119-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-416 Use After Free

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 26
Os 1

Alert History

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Date Informations
2019-09-04 05:22:29
  • Multiple Updates
2019-09-03 21:18:43
  • First insertion