http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/02/15/1

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_02.txt

USN-3590-1

DSA-4162

New irssi packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and
-current to fix security issues.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Irssi, a terminal-based IRC client which can result in denial of service.

According to the versions of the irssi package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x     before 1.1.1. A NULL pointer dereference occurs for an     'empty' nick.i1/4^ CVE-2018-7050i1/4%0

  - An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x     before 1.1.1. Certain nick names could result in     out-of-bounds access when printing theme     strings.i1/4^CVE-2018-7051i1/4%0

  - An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x     before 1.1.1. When the number of windows exceeds the     available space, a crash due to a NULL pointer     dereference would occur.i1/4^CVE-2018-7052i1/4%0

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain empty nick names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-7050)

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain nick names.
An attacker could possibly use this to access sensitive information.
(CVE-2018-7051)

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled an increase in the number of windows. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-7052)

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-7053)

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain disconnections. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-7054).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This is new version fixing multiple vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-7050, CVE-2018-7051, CVE-2018-7052, CVE-2018-7053, CVE-2018-7054.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for irssi fixes the following security issues :

  - CVE-2018-7054: Use after free when server is     disconnected during netsplits

  - CVE-2018-7053: Use after free when SASL messages are     received in unexpected order

  - CVE-2018-7050: NULL pointer dereference when an 'empty'     nick has been observed

  - CVE-2018-7052: When the number of windows exceed the     available space, Irssi would crash due to NULL pointer     dereference

  - CVE-2018-7051: Certain nick names could result in out of     bounds access when printing theme strings

Irssi reports :

Use after free when server is disconnected during netsplits. Found by Joseph Bisch.

Use after free when SASL messages are received in unexpected order.
Found by Joseph Bisch.

NULL pointer dereference when an 'empty' nick has been observed by Irssi. Found by Joseph Bisch.

When the number of windows exceed the available space, Irssi would crash due to NULL pointer dereference. Found by Joseph Bisch.

Certain nick names could result in out of bounds access when printing theme strings. Found by Oss-Fuzz.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
121144	Slackware 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : irssi (SSA:2019-011-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	high
108774	Debian DSA-4162-1 : irssi - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
108465	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : irssi (EulerOS-SA-2018-1061)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
108464	EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : irssi (EulerOS-SA-2018-1060)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
107193	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.10 : irssi vulnerabilities (USN-3590-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
107013	Fedora 26 : irssi (2018-cbc52e8812)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
107008	Fedora 27 : irssi (2018-433d2dc3c7)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
106889	openSUSE Security Update : irssi (openSUSE-2018-171)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
106881	FreeBSD : irssi -- multiple vulnerabilities (7afc5e56-156d-11e8-95f2-005056925db4)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
106850	Slackware 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : irssi (SSA:2018-046-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	high

CVE-2018-7050

MEDIUM

Description

References

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

CVSS v3.0

Vulnerable Software

Configuration 1

Configuration 2

Configuration 3

Tenable Plugins

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medium

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