openSUSE Security Update: Security update for irssi ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2524-1 Rating: moderate References: #1001215 #999199 Cross-References: CVE-2016-7044 CVE-2016-7045 CVE-2016-7553 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available. Description: The IRC client irssi was updated to 0.8.20, fixing various bugs and security issues. * CVE-2016-7044: The unformat_24bit_color function in the format parsing code in Irssi, when compiled with true-color enabled, allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and crash) via an incomplete 24bit color code. * CVE-2016-7045: The format_send_to_gui function in the format parsing code in Irssi allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and crash) via vectors involving the length of a string. See https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt for more details. * CVE-2016-7553: A information disclosure vulnerability in irssi buf.pl See https://irssi.org/2016/09/22/buf.pl-update/ for more information. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.1: zypper in -t patch 5661=1 - openSUSE 13.2: zypper in -t patch 5661=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64): irssi-0.8.20-6.1 irssi-debuginfo-0.8.20-6.1 irssi-debugsource-0.8.20-6.1 irssi-devel-0.8.20-6.1 - openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64): irssi-0.8.20-3.4.1 irssi-debuginfo-0.8.20-3.4.1 irssi-debugsource-0.8.20-3.4.1 irssi-devel-0.8.20-3.4.1 References: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7044.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7045.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7553.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1001215 https://bugzilla.suse.com/999199