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openSUSE Security Update : irssi (openSUSE-2017-352)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97816

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update to irssi 1.0.2 fixes security issues and bugs.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

boo#1029020: Use after free while producing list of netjoins

The following non-security changes are included :

 - Fix in command arg parser to detect missing arguments in tail place

 - Fix regression that broke incoming DCC file transfers

 - Fix issue with escaping \ in evaluated strings

 - improve UTF8 support in GRegex

Solution

Update the affected irssi packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029020

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97816

File Name: openSUSE-2017-352.nasl

Version: 3.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/20/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2017