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Ubuntu 22.10 : Irssi vulnerability (USN-6002-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174044

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6002-1 advisory.

 - Irssi 1.3.x and 1.4.x before 1.4.4 has a use-after-free because of use of a stale special collector reference. This occurs when printing of a non-formatted line is concurrent with printing of a formatted line. (CVE-2023-29132)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected irssi, irssi-dev and / or irssi-plugin-otr packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6002-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174044

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6002-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/10/2023

Updated: 4/25/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

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 Score Source: CVE-2023-29132

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:irssi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:irssi-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:irssi-plugin-otr

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29132

USN: 6002-1