IRSSI Long Malformed Topic Denial Of Service Vulnerability

IRSSI Long Malformed Topic Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
This issue does not appear to be present in versions earlier than 0.8.4. It has also been reported that only the text version of the client is affected, and irssi-gnome and irssi-gtk are unaffected.

FreeBSD has released a Security Notice FreeBSD-SN-02:05. Users of FreeBSD
systems are strongly urged to upgrade their ports tree to fix various
reported issues. Further information can be found in the referenced
Security Notice.

Fixes are available:

irssi irssi 0.8.4

Debian irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0 .8.4-3.1_alpha.deb

Debian irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0 .8.4-3.1_arm.deb

Debian irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0 .8.4-3.1_hppa.deb

Debian irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0 .8.4-3.1_i386.deb

Debian irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0 .8.4-3.1_ia64.deb

Debian irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0 .8.4-3.1_m68k.deb

Debian irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0 .8.4-3.1_mips.deb

Debian irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0 .8.4-3.1_mipsel.deb

Debian irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0 .8.4-3.1_powerpc.deb

Debian irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0 .8.4-3.1_s390.deb

Debian irssi-text_0.8.4-3.1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/irssi-text/irssi-text_0 .8.4-3.1_sparc.deb