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Fedora 10: 2009-7004 Moderate: Irssi Off-By-One Error Fix

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade to irssi 0.8.13 resolves a critical off-by-one vulnerability, improving security for IRC clients on Fedora 10 systems. More information available here.

Summary

Irssi is a modular IRC client with Perl scripting. Only text-mode

frontend is currently supported. The GTK/GNOME frontend is no longer

being maintained.

ChangeLog:

* Tue Jun 23 2009 Huzaifa Sidhpurwala - 0.8.13-3

- Resolve CVE-2009-1959

* Fri May 1 2009 Marek Mahut - 0.8.13-1

- Upstream release

* Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.8.12-13

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

* Sat Jan 17 2009 Tomas Mraz - 0.8.12-12

- rebuild with new openssl

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #504554 - CVE-2009-1959 irssi: off-by-one error in the event_wallops

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504554

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use

su -c 'yum update irssi' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

http://fedoraproject.org/keys

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Name: irssi
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.8.13
Release: 3.fc10
Summary: Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting

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