Irssi DCC Message and File Processing Flaws Let Remote Users Cause the Target Application to Crash
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1038621 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1038621
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2017-9468, CVE-2017-9469
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Jun 7 2017
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Impact:
Denial of service via network
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): prior to 1.0.3
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Description:
Two vulnerabilities were reported in Irssi. A remote user can cause the target application to crash.
A remote server can return a specially crafted DCC message without a source nick or host value to trigger a null pointer dereference and can cause the target application to crash [CVE-2017-9468].
A remote user can send specially crafted incorrectly quoted DCC files to trigger an out-of-bounds memory error and cause the target application to crash [CVE-2017-9469].
Joseph Bisch reported these vulnerabilities.
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Impact:
A remote user can cause the target application to crash.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix (1.0.3).
The vendor advisory is available at:
https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_06.txt
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Vendor URL: irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_06.txt (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error, Boundary error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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