FreeBSD : Irssi -- multiple vulnerabilities (3d6be69b-d365-11e6-a071-001e67f15f5a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96322

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Synopsis

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

Description

Irssi reports :

Five vulnerabilities have been located in Irssi

- A NULL pointer dereference in the nickcmp function found by Joseph Bisch. (CWE-690)

- Use after free when receiving invalid nick message (Issue #466, CWE-146)

- Out of bounds read in certain incomplete control codes found by Joseph Bisch. (CWE-126)

- Out of bounds read in certain incomplete character sequences found by Hanno Bock and independently by J. Bisch. (CWE-126)

- Out of bounds read when Printing the value '%['. Found by Hanno Bock. (CWE-126)

These issues may result in denial of service (remote crash).

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96322

File Name: freebsd_pkg_3d6be69bd36511e6a071001e67f15f5a.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 1/6/2017

Updated: 1/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5356

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:irssi

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/3/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5193, CVE-2017-5194, CVE-2017-5195, CVE-2017-5196, CVE-2017-5356

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