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Fedora 23 : irssi (2016-0551065fe0)

high Nessus Plugin ID 93972

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2016-7553.

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This is new version of irssi fixing security bugs, for details see upstream announcement:
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/releases/tag/0.8.20

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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Solution

Update the affected irssi package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-0551065fe0

https://github.com/irssi/irssi/releases/tag/0.8.20

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93972

File Name: fedora_2016-0551065fe0.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/12/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:irssi

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7044, CVE-2016-7045, CVE-2016-7553