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Ubuntu alert USN-259-1 (irssi-text)

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

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-259-1 March 01, 2006 irssi-text vulnerability CVE-2006-0458 =========================================================== 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 -- ubuntu-security-announce mailing list ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security...


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