openSUSE Security Update : irssi (openSUSE-SU-2010:0183-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 46190

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

irssi did not check the identity information of a remote hosts's certificate. Attackers could exploit that for a man-in-the-middle attack (CVE-2010-1155).

irssi could crash if someone changed nick while the victim was leaving the channel (CVE-2010-1156).

Solution

Update the affected irssi packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 46190

File Name: suse_11_2_irssi-100427.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/30/2010

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1155, CVE-2010-1156

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