Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-929-1

Please Install the Updated Packages.

It was discovered that irssi did not perform certificate host validation when using SSL connections. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. (CVE-2010-1155) Aurelien Delaitre discovered that irssi could be made to dereference a NULL pointer when a user left the channel. A remote attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash. (CVE-2010-1156) This update also adds SSLv3 and TLSv1 support, while disabling the old, insecure SSLv2 protocol.

irssi vulnerabilities on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS , Ubuntu 8.10 , Ubuntu 9.04 , Ubuntu 9.10