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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-bc08435961
2018-01-17 14:43:36.646286
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Name : irssi
Product : Fedora 26
Version : 1.0.6
Release : 1.fc26
URL :
http://irssi.org/
Summary : Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting
Description :
Irssi is a modular IRC client with Perl scripting. Only text-mode
frontend is currently supported. The GTK/GNOME frontend is no longer
being maintained.
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Update Information:
This is new version of irssi. It contains security fixes for CVE-2018-5205
CVE-2018-5206 CVE-2018-5207 CVE-2018-5208.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1532624 - CVE-2018-5207 irssi: Out-of-bounds read when using an incomplete
variable argument
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532624
[ 2 ] Bug #1532622 - CVE-2018-5208 irssi: heap buffer overflow due to calculation error
in the completion code
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532622
[ 3 ] Bug #1532573 - CVE-2018-5205 irssi: Out-of-bounds read when using incomplete
escape codes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532573
[ 4 ] Bug #1532569 - CVE-2018-5206 irssi: NULL pointer dereference when channel topic is
set without specifying sender
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532569
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade irssi' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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