Advisories » MGASA-2019-0091

Updated irssi packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 20 Feb 2019
Modification date: 02 Mar 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2019-5882

Description

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to execute
arbitrary code (CVE-2019-5882).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24207
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3862-1/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-5882

SRPMS

6/core

• irssi-1.0.7-1.1.mga6