Debian Security Advisory
DSA-157-1 irssi-text -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 23 Aug 2002
- Affected Packages:
- irssi-text
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 5055.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-0983. - More information:
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The IRC client irssi is vulnerable to a denial of service condition. The problem occurs when a user attempts to join a channel that has an overly long topic description. When a certain string is appended to the topic, irssi will crash.
This problem has been fixed in version 0.8.4-3.1 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 0.8.5-2 for the unstable distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected, since the corresponding portions of code are not present. The same applies to irssi-gnome and irssi-gtk, which don't seem to be affected as well.
We recommend that you upgrade your irssi-text package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_ia64.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.