openSUSE Security Update: irssi security update ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2010:0183-1 Rating: moderate References: #596005 Cross-References: CVE-2010-1155 CVE-2010-1156 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.2 openSUSE 11.1 openSUSE 11.0 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available. Description: irssi did not check the identity information of a remote hosts's certificate. Attackers could exploit that for a man-in-the-middle attack (CVE-2010-1155). irssi could crash if someone changed nick while the victim was leaving the channel (CVE-2010-1156). Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.2: zypper in -t patch irssi-2368 - openSUSE 11.1: zypper in -t patch irssi-2368 - openSUSE 11.0: zypper in -t patch irssi-2368 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.2 (i586 src x86_64): irssi-0.8.13-2.2.1 - openSUSE 11.2 (i586 x86_64): irssi-devel-0.8.13-2.2.1 - openSUSE 11.1 (i586 ppc src x86_64): irssi-0.8.12-30.71.1 - openSUSE 11.1 (i586 ppc x86_64): irssi-devel-0.8.12-30.71.1 - openSUSE 11.0 (i586 ppc src x86_64): irssi-0.8.12-49.4 - openSUSE 11.0 (i586 ppc x86_64): irssi-devel-0.8.12-49.4 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1155.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1156.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/596005