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Debian DSA-3672-1 : irssi - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 93621

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet from Quarkslab discovered two remotely exploitable crash and heap corruption vulnerabilities in the format parsing code in Irssi, a terminal based IRC client.

Solution

Upgrade the irssi packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.17-1+deb8u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/irssi

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3672

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93621

File Name: debian_DSA-3672.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/22/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:irssi, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/21/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7044, CVE-2016-7045

DSA: 3672