USN-3317-1

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain DCC messages. A malicious IRC server could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9468)

Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled receiving incorrectly quoted DCC files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9469)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / irssi

Package

Name: irssi
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/irssi@0.8.15-5ubuntu3.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.8.15-5ubuntu3.2

Affected versions

0.*

0.8.15-5ubuntu2

0.8.15-5ubuntu3

0.8.15-5ubuntu3.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.8.15-5ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "irssi"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.8.15-5ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "irssi-dev"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / irssi

Package

Name: irssi
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/irssi@0.8.19-1ubuntu1.4?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.8.19-1ubuntu1.4

Affected versions

0.*

0.8.17-1ubuntu1

0.8.17-1ubuntu2

0.8.18-1ubuntu1

0.8.19-1ubuntu1

0.8.19-1ubuntu1.2

0.8.19-1ubuntu1.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.8.19-1ubuntu1.4",
            "binary_name": "irssi"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.8.19-1ubuntu1.4",
            "binary_name": "irssi-dev"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}