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Ubuntu: USN-3465-1 (CVE-2017-15722): Irssi vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3465-1 (CVE-2017-15722): Irssi vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/22/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/26/2017
Modified
05/03/2019

Description

In certain cases, Irssi before 1.0.5 may fail to verify that a Safe channel ID is long enough, causing reads beyond the end of the string.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-irssi

References

  • USN-3465-1
  • DSA-4016
  • CVE-2017-15722

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