| From: |
| Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@canonical.com> |
| To: |
| ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com |
| Subject: |
| [USN-259-1] irssi vulnerability |
| Date: |
| Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:47:49 +0100 |
| Cc: |
| full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@securityfocus.com |
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-259-1 March 01, 2006
irssi-text vulnerability
CVE-2006-0458
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
The following packages are affected:
irssi-text
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 0.8.9+0.8.10rc5-0ubuntu4.1. After a standard system upgrade
you need to restart irssi to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
A Denial of Service vulnerability was discoverd in irssi. The DCC
ACCEPT command handler did not sufficiently verify the remotely
specified arguments. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash
irssi by sending a specially crafted DCC commands.
Source archives:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/irssi-text/...
Size/MD5: 12568 50ec4fee5eaf55ba7a312373bbaca462
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/irssi-text/...
Size/MD5: 739 23ccac99b2a8f82d47cb1cc5f9a51ac8
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/irssi-text/...
Size/MD5: 1192158 7c0b6c1533c85e918f41ded1238e4ca1
amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/irssi-text/...
Size/MD5: 955832 134ebeda2593d742a808a79b78a9f488
i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/irssi-text/...
Size/MD5: 851690 854b0e9e9ff3a73160a71d1b5445d850
powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/irssi-text/...
Size/MD5: 937644 73f7b5547d9905e95006889dbc92082b
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