USN-4046-1: Irssi vulnerabilities
irssi vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 19.04
- Ubuntu 18.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in Irssi.
Software Description
- irssi – terminal based IRC client
Details
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain disconnections.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service
or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
(CVE-2018-7054)
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain requests.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service
or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-13045)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 19.04
- irssi – 1.2.0-2ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 18.10
- irssi – 1.1.1-1ubuntu1.2
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- irssi – 1.0.5-1ubuntu4.2
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- irssi – 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.9
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart Irssi to make all the necessary changes.
References
Source: USN-4046-1: Irssi vulnerabilities
