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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2002.461 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 157-1
New irssi-text packages fix denial of service
26 August 2002
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: irssi
Vendor: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
Impact: Denial of Service
Access Required: Remote
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 157-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
August 23rd, 2002 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : irssi-text
Vulnerability : denial of service
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
BugTraq ID : 5055
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 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.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 649 45ddefa3d91a9b66c56160a5c017b2a7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 72951 e31eed9f81003ba318e841f3fd5f5119
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 952304 57bf9d89638be3d377be211f0b0d7049
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 903334 1016a920949b3dd3a2a2ff0a5691a050
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 754340 615076b56439436f3757dc48bc294233
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 695000 9557d0cce86def75e96636781c68716e
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1291782 b5eaa3db75572cffdd490093ea99a1ec
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 890694 9981ad90d84232736e152ff59f533048
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 683516 6bcafbf18d79d3113a2d2e15adbcc72e
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 776628 a819f3ae3a7f6eb2b7de4935c50a92a2
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 776688 e6cbc3580de13997477cec0d4f4b6102
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 760356 cb2027ac3fb685d5126b7d89e9c7bbbc
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 725678 3862d7d4ba5a3933507a976dd3855541
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 764396 527d18a16fa8f59bd0b950a758062527
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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