Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for irssi. This fixes a weakness, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Fedora update for irssi
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36152
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36152/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for irssi. This fixes a weakness, which
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).
The weakness is caused due to a error in the processing of WALLOPS
messages, which can be exploited to cause a crash.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update irssi").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2009-7012:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00146.html
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