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openSUSE Security Update : irssi (openSUSE-2017-668)

🗓️ 09 Jun 2017 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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openSUSE Security Update for irssi version 1.0.3 addresses CVE-2017-9468 and CVE-2017-9469 vulnerabilities

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CVE-2017-9468
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7 Jun 201701:00
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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2017-668.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(100713);
  script_version("3.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/12/16");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-9468", "CVE-2017-9469");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : irssi (openSUSE-2017-668)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"This update to irssi 1.0.3 fixes the following vulnerabilities :

  - CVE-2017-9469: irssi: dcc crash with incorrect quoting
    (bsc#1043052)

  - CVE-2017-9468: irssi: dcc message crash without
    nick/host (bsc#1043051)");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043051");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043052");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected irssi packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-9469");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/06/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/06/09");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:irssi-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2025 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE42\.2)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.2", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);

flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"irssi-1.0.3-14.7.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"irssi-debuginfo-1.0.3-14.7.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"irssi-debugsource-1.0.3-14.7.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"irssi-devel-1.0.3-14.7.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "irssi / irssi-debuginfo / irssi-debugsource / irssi-devel");
}

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