DSA-3672-1 irssi -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3672-1 irssi -- security update

Date Reported:

21 Sep 2016

Affected Packages:

irssi

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-7044, CVE-2016-7045.

More information:

Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet from Quarkslab discovered two remotely exploitable crash and heap corruption vulnerabilities in the format parsing code in Irssi, a terminal based IRC client.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.17-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your irssi packages.