USN-4046-1: Irssi vulnerabilities

irssi vulnerabilities

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

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

• CVE-2018-7054
• CVE-2019-13045

from Ubuntu Security Notices https://ift.tt/2XrWUGG