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Debian DSA-4016-1 : irssi - security update

2017-11-0600:00:00
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13

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

72.5%

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Irssi, a terminal based IRC client. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  • CVE-2017-10965 Brian ‘geeknik’ Carpenter of Geeknik Labs discovered that Irssi does not properly handle receiving messages with invalid time stamps. A malicious IRC server can take advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

  • CVE-2017-10966 Brian ‘geeknik’ Carpenter of Geeknik Labs discovered that Irssi is susceptible to a use-after-free flaw triggered while updating the internal nick list. A malicious IRC server can take advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

  • CVE-2017-15227 Joseph Bisch discovered that while waiting for the channel synchronisation, Irssi may incorrectly fail to remove destroyed channels from the query list, resulting in use after free conditions when updating the state later on. A malicious IRC server can take advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

  • CVE-2017-15228 Hanno Boeck reported that Irssi does not properly handle installing themes with unterminated colour formatting sequences, leading to a denial of service if a user is tricked into installing a specially crafted theme.

  • CVE-2017-15721 Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi does not properly handle incorrectly formatted DCC CTCP messages. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

  • CVE-2017-15722 Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi does not properly verify Safe channel IDs. A malicious IRC server can take advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

  • CVE-2017-15723 Joseph Bisch reported that Irssi does not properly handle overlong nicks or targets resulting in a NULL pointer dereference when splitting the message and leading to a denial of service.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4016. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(104400);
  script_version("3.4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-10965", "CVE-2017-10966", "CVE-2017-15227", "CVE-2017-15228", "CVE-2017-15721", "CVE-2017-15722", "CVE-2017-15723");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4016");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4016-1 : irssi - security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Irssi, a terminal
based IRC client. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2017-10965
    Brian 'geeknik' Carpenter of Geeknik Labs discovered
    that Irssi does not properly handle receiving messages
    with invalid time stamps. A malicious IRC server can
    take advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi to crash,
    resulting in a denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-10966
    Brian 'geeknik' Carpenter of Geeknik Labs discovered
    that Irssi is susceptible to a use-after-free flaw
    triggered while updating the internal nick list. A
    malicious IRC server can take advantage of this flaw to
    cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-15227
    Joseph Bisch discovered that while waiting for the
    channel synchronisation, Irssi may incorrectly fail to
    remove destroyed channels from the query list, resulting
    in use after free conditions when updating the state
    later on. A malicious IRC server can take advantage of
    this flaw to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial
    of service.

  - CVE-2017-15228
    Hanno Boeck reported that Irssi does not properly handle
    installing themes with unterminated colour formatting
    sequences, leading to a denial of service if a user is
    tricked into installing a specially crafted theme.

  - CVE-2017-15721
    Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi does not properly
    handle incorrectly formatted DCC CTCP messages. A remote
    attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi
    to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-15722
    Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi does not properly
    verify Safe channel IDs. A malicious IRC server can take
    advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi to crash,
    resulting in a denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-15723
    Joseph Bisch reported that Irssi does not properly
    handle overlong nicks or targets resulting in a NULL
    pointer dereference when splitting the message and
    leading to a denial of service."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867598"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=879521"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10965"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10966"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15227"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15228"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15721"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15722"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15723"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10965"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10966"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/irssi"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/irssi"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4016"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the irssi packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been
fixed in version 0.8.17-1+deb8u5.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.0.2-1+deb9u3. CVE-2017-10965 and CVE-2017-10966 were
already fixed in an earlier point release."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:irssi");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/11/03");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/11/06");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"irssi", reference:"0.8.17-1+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"irssi-dbg", reference:"0.8.17-1+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"irssi-dev", reference:"0.8.17-1+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"irssi", reference:"1.0.2-1+deb9u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"irssi-dev", reference:"1.0.2-1+deb9u3")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxirssip-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:irssi
debiandebian_linux8.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0
debiandebian_linux9.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

References

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

72.5%