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Debian Security Advisory DSA 157-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Martin Schulze
August 23rd, 2002                        Debian -- Debian 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:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:      649 45ddefa3d91a9b66c56160a5c017b2a7
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    72951 e31eed9f81003ba318e841f3fd5f5119
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   952304 57bf9d89638be3d377be211f0b0d7049

  Alpha architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   903334 1016a920949b3dd3a2a2ff0a5691a050

  ARM architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   754340 615076b56439436f3757dc48bc294233

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   695000 9557d0cce86def75e96636781c68716e

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1291782 b5eaa3db75572cffdd490093ea99a1ec

  HP Precision architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   890694 9981ad90d84232736e152ff59f533048

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   683516 6bcafbf18d79d3113a2d2e15adbcc72e

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   776628 a819f3ae3a7f6eb2b7de4935c50a92a2

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   776688 e6cbc3580de13997477cec0d4f4b6102

  PowerPC architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   760356 cb2027ac3fb685d5126b7d89e9c7bbbc

  IBM S/390 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   725678 3862d7d4ba5a3933507a976dd3855541

  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   764396 527d18a16fa8f59bd0b950a758062527


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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