Fedora 26: 2017-2f30e218e7 Critical: Irssi DCC Message Vulnerability

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 an security fix 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

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