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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 23:31:56 +0200
From: Ailin Nemui <ailin.nemui@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: FYI: Irssi Security Advisory 2017/06
IRSSI-SA-2017-06 Irssi Security Advisory [1]
============================================
Description
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Two vulnerabilities have been located in Irssi.
(a) When receiving a DCC message without source nick/host, Irssi would
attempt to dereference a NULL pointer. Found by Joseph
Bisch. (CWE-690)
(b) When receiving certain incorrectly quoted DCC files, Irssi would
try to find the terminating quote one byte before the allocated
memory. Found by Joseph Bisch. (CWE-129, CWE-127)
Impact
------
(a) May result in denial of service (remote crash).
(b) May result in denial of service (remote crash), but in practice
this seems to be very unlikely unless address sanitizer is
enabled.
Affected versions
-----------------
All Irssi versions that we observed.
Fixed in
--------
Irssi 1.0.3
Recommended action
------------------
Upgrade to Irssi 1.0.3. Irssi 1.0.3 is a maintenance release in the
1.0 series, without any new features.
After installing the updated packages, one can issue the /upgrade
command to load the new binary. TLS connections will require
/reconnect.
Mitigating facts
----------------
(a) requires control over the ircd
Patch
-----
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/fb08fc7f1aa6b2e616413d003bf021612
301ad55
References
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[1] https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_06.txt
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