USN-3086-1: Irssi vulnerabilities
21 September 2016
Irssi could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Releases
Packages
- 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
After a standard system update you need to restart Irssi to make
all the necessary changes.