Ubuntu USN-800-1 (irssi)

The remote host is missing an update to irssi announced via advisory USN-800-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: ubuntu8001.nasl 8616 2018-02-01 08:24:13Z cfischer $ $Id: ubuntu8001.nasl 8616 2018-02-01 08:24:13Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory USN-800-1 irssi Authors: Thomas...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : irssi vulnerability (USN-800-1)

It was discovered that irssi did not properly check the length of strings when processing WALLOPS messages. If a user connected to an IRC network where an attacker had IRC operator privileges, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...