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Fedora 25: 2016-09-27 Critical Update for Irssi Crash Issues

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora 25 irssi security update addresses major vulnerabilities affecting user privacy and system integrity, enhancing overall protection and performance
This is new version of irssi fixing security bugs, for details see upstream announcement: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/releases/tag/0.8.20

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.

Update Information:

This is new version of irssi fixing security bugs, for details see upstream announcement: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/releases/tag/0.8.20

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Fedora software fix irssi crash

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1378343 - CVE-2016-7044 irssi: Unchecked input in unformat_24bit_color() can lead to crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378343 [ 2 ] Bug #1378344 - CVE-2016-7045 irssi: String length not validated in format_send_to_gui() causing crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378344

Update Instructions

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 .

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Name: irssi
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 0.8.20
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://irssi.org/
Summary: Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Fedora software fix irssi crash

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