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openSUSE Security Update : irssi (openSUSE-2021-587)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149564

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for irssi fixes the following issues :

irssi was updated to 1.2.3 (boo#1184848)

 - Fix the compilation of utf8proc (#1021)

 - Fix wrong call to free. By Zero King (#1076)

 - Fix a colour reset in true colour themes when encountering mIRC colours (#1059)

 - Fix memory leak on malformed CAP requests (#1120)

 - Fix an erroneous free of SASL data. Credit to Oss-Fuzz (#1128, #1130)

 - Re-set the TLS flag when reconnecting (#1027, #1134)

 - Fix the scrollback getting stuck after /clear (#1115, #1136)

 - Fix the input of Ctrl+C as the first character (#1153, #1154)

 - Fix crash on quit during unloading of modules on certain platforms (#1167)

 - Fix Irssi freezing input after Ctrl+Space on GLib >2.62 (#1180, #1183)

 - Fix layout of IDCHANs. By Lauri Tirkkonen (#1197)

 - Fix crash when server got reconnected before it was properly connected (#1210, #1211)

 - Fix multiple identical active caps (#1249)

 - Minor help corrections (#1156, #1213, #1214, #1255)

 - Remove erroneous colour in the colorless theme. Reported and fixed by Nutchanon Wetchasit (#1220, #1221)

 - Fix invalid bounds calculation when editing the text entry. Found and fixed by Sergey Valentey (#1269)

 - Fix passing of negative size in buffer writes. Found and fixed by Sergey Valentey (#1270)

 - Fix Irssi freezing on slow hardware and fast DCC transfers (#159, #1271)

 - Fix compilation on Solaris (#1291)

 - Fix NULL pointer dereference when receiving broken JOIN record. Credit to Oss-Fuzz (#1292)

 - Fix crash on /connect to some sockets (#1239, #1298)

 - Fix Irssi rendering on Apple ARM. By Misty De Méo (#1267, #1268, #1290)

 - Fix crash on /lastlog with broken lines (#1281, #1299)

 - Fix memory leak when receiving bogus SASL authentication data. Found and fixed by Sergey Valentey (#1293)

Solution

Update the affected irssi packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184848

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149564

File Name: openSUSE-2021-587.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2021

Updated: 5/18/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 4/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/19/2021