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openSUSE Security Update : irssi (openSUSE-2016-2524)

low Nessus Plugin ID 94093

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The IRC client irssi was updated to 0.8.20, fixing various bugs and security issues.

 - CVE-2016-7044: The unformat_24bit_color function in the format parsing code in Irssi, when compiled with true-color enabled, allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and crash) via an incomplete 24bit color code.

 - CVE-2016-7045: The format_send_to_gui function in the format parsing code in Irssi allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and crash) via vectors involving the length of a string.

See https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt for more details.

 - CVE-2016-7553: A information disclosure vulnerability in irssi buf.pl

See https://irssi.org/2016/09/22/buf.pl-update/ for more information.

Solution

Update the affected irssi packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001215

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=999199

https://irssi.org/2016/09/22/buf.pl-update/

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 94093

File Name: openSUSE-2016-2524.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/17/2016

Updated: 1/21/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7553

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7044, CVE-2016-7045, CVE-2016-7553