Mageia alert MGASA-2017-0185 (irssi)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2017-0185: Updated irssi packages fix security vulnerabilities 
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Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:37:39 +0200
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MGASA-2017-0185 - Updated irssi packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 26 Jun 2017
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0185.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2017-9468,
     CVE-2017-9469

Description:
It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain DCC messages.
A malicious IRC server could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash,
resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2017-9468).

Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled receiving
incorrectly quoted DCC files. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service
(CVE-2017-9469).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21037
- https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3317-1/
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9468
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9469

SRPMS:
- 5/core/irssi-0.8.21-1.1.mga5