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Fedora 25: 2016-39de4eb5e7 Critical: Irssi Information Disclosure

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
New release for irssi addresses security vulnerability CVE-2016-7553 on Fedora systems, reinforcing defenses against potential data exposure.
Security fix for CVE-2016-7553.

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:

Security fix for CVE-2016-7553.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora information disclosure irssi

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1379270 - CVE-2016-7553 irssi: Information disclosure in buf.pl https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1379270

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: 2.fc25
URL: https://irssi.org/
Summary: Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora information disclosure irssi

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