Ubuntu 4046-1: Serious Vulnerabilities Found in Irssi Software

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July 4, 2019

Several security issues were fixed in Irssi.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Irssi.

Software Description:

- irssi: terminal based IRC client

Details:

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain disconnections.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service

or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

(CVE-2018-7054)

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain requests.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service

or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-13045)

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue remote code execution update instructions ubuntu irssi

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
  irssi                           1.2.0-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.10:
  irssi                           1.1.1-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  irssi                           1.0.5-1ubuntu4.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  irssi                           0.8.19-1ubuntu1.9

After a standard system update you need to restart Irssi to make all the necessary changes.