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openSUSE Security Update : irssi (openSUSE-2017-67)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96385

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

irssi was updated to fix four vulnerabilities that could result in denial of service (remote crash) when connecting to malicious servers or receiving specially crafted data. (boo#1018357)

 - CVE-2017-5193: NULL pointer dereference in the nickcmp function

 - CVE-2017-5194: out of bounds read in certain incomplete control codes

 - CVE-2017-5195: out of bounds read in certain incomplete character sequences

- CVE-2017-5196: Correct an error when receiving invalid nick message

Solution

Update the affected irssi packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1018357

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96385

File Name: openSUSE-2017-67.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/10/2017

Updated: 1/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2017-5196

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2017

Reference Information

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