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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3672-1 (irssi - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
6 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet from Quarkslab discovered two remotely exploitable crash and heap corruption vulnerabilities in the format parsing code in Irssi, a terminal based IRC client.
Affected Software
Affected Software
irssi on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.17-1+deb8u1. We recommend that you upgrade your irssi packages.