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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : irssi vulnerability (USN-800-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39787

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that irssi did not properly check the length of strings when processing WALLOPS messages. If a user connected to an IRC network where an attacker had IRC operator privileges, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service.

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Solution

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

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/800-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39787

File Name: ubuntu_USN-800-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/14/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:irssi-text, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:irssi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:irssi-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1959

BID: 35399

CWE: 189

USN: 800-1