USN-4046-1: Irssi vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• irssi - terminal based IRC client

Details

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain disconnections.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service
or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
(CVE-2018-7054)

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain requests.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service
or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-13045)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04

• irssi - 1.2.0-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.10

• irssi - 1.1.1-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 18.04

• irssi - 1.0.5-1ubuntu4.2

Ubuntu 16.04

• irssi - 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.9

After a standard system update you need to restart Irssi to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2018-7054
• CVE-2019-13045

Related notices

• USN-3590-1: irssi, irssi-dev