Summary
The remote host is missing an update to irssi
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:133.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:133
Insight
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in irssi:
Off-by-one error in the event_wallops function in
fe-common/irc/fe-events.c in irssi 0.8.13 allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an empty command, which triggers a one-byte buffer under-read and a one-byte buffer underflow (CVE-2009-1959).
This update provides fixes for this vulnerability.
Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1, Corporate 3.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-1959 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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