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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Irssi vulnerabilities (USN-3465-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 104212

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3465-1 advisory.

 Brian Carpenter discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled messages with invalid time stamps. A malicious IRC server could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2017-10965)

 Brian Carpenter discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled the internal nick list. A malicious IRC server could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-10966)

 Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly removed destroyed channels from the query list. A malicious IRC server could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2017-15227)

 Hanno Bck discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled themes. If a user were tricked into using a malicious theme, a attacker could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-15228)

 Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain DCC CTCP messages. A malicious IRC server could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-15721)

 Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain channel IDs. A malicious IRC server could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-15722)

 Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain long nicks or targets. A malicious IRC server could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-15723)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected irssi and / or irssi-dev packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3465-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 104212

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3465-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/27/2017

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-10966

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:irssi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:irssi-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/26/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10965, CVE-2017-10966, CVE-2017-15227, CVE-2017-15228, CVE-2017-15721, CVE-2017-15722, CVE-2017-15723

USN: 3465-1