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Debian DLA-722-1 : irssi security update

low Nessus Plugin ID 95358

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability was found in irssi.

CVE-2016-7553 Other users on the same machine as the user running irssi with buf.pl loaded may be able to retrieve the whole window contents after /UPGRADE. Furthermore, this dump of the windows contents is never removed afterwards.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this problems have been fixed in version 0.8.15-5+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your irssi packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected irssi, and irssi-dev packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/11/msg00028.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/irssi

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 95358

File Name: debian_DLA-722.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/28/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:irssi-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:irssi

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7553