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Critical Irssi DCC Issues in Fedora 25: 2017-75c571778e Update

fedora
Calendar Grey July 8, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Updates provided for irssi on Fedora 25 mitigate various high-risk vulnerabilities, encompassing issues like null pointer dereferencing.
This is new version with security fixes for CVE-2017-9468, CVE-2017-9469.

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.

This is new version with security fixes for CVE-2017-9468, CVE-2017-9469.

[ 1 ] Bug #1459456 - CVE-2017-9468 irssi: Null pointer dereference while receiving a DCC message without source nick/host

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459456

[ 2 ] Bug #1459457 - CVE-2017-9469 irssi: Invalid read when receiving certain incorrectly quoted DCC files

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459457

su -c 'dnf upgrade irssi' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.0.3
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting

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