Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-9469 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
irssi
debian
CWE-119
nessus

Summary

In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving certain incorrectly quoted DCC files, it tries to find the terminating quote one byte before the allocated memory. Thus, remote attackers might be able to cause a crash.

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Overflow Buffers
    Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
  • Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
  • Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
  • MIME Conversion
    An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-2F30E218E7.NASL
    descriptionThis is an security fix for CVE-2017-9468, CVE-2017-9469. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-07-17
    plugin id101601
    published2017-07-17
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/101601
    titleFedora 26 : irssi (2017-2f30e218e7)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2017-2f30e218e7.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(101601);
      script_version("3.4");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2017-9468", "CVE-2017-9469");
      script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2017-2f30e218e7");
    
      script_name(english:"Fedora 26 : irssi (2017-2f30e218e7)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "This is an security fix for CVE-2017-9468, CVE-2017-9469.
    
    Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
    description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
    Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as
    possible without introducing additional issues."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-2f30e218e7"
      );
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected irssi package.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:irssi");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/06/07");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/07/07");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/07/17");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
    if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
    os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
    if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
    os_ver = os_ver[1];
    if (! preg(pattern:"^26([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 26", "Fedora " + os_ver);
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"FC26", reference:"irssi-1.0.3-1.fc26")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      security_report_v4(
        port       : 0,
        severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
        extra      : rpm_report_get()
      );
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "irssi");
    }
    
  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2019-1971.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the versions of the irssi package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The nickcmp function in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a message without a nick.(CVE-2017-5193) - Use-after-free vulnerability in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid nick message.(CVE-2017-5194) - Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a string containing a formatting sequence (%[) without a closing bracket (]).(CVE-2017-5356) - In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving a DCC message without source nick/host, it attempts to dereference a NULL pointer. Thus, remote IRC servers can cause a crash.(CVE-2017-9468) - In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving certain incorrectly quoted DCC files, it tries to find the terminating quote one byte before the allocated memory. Thus, remote attackers might be able to cause a crash.(CVE-2017-9469) - An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. When receiving messages with invalid time stamps, Irssi would try to dereference a NULL pointer.(CVE-2017-10965) - An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. While updating the internal nick list, Irssi could incorrectly use the GHashTable interface and free the nick while updating it. This would then result in use-after-free conditions on each access of the hash table.(CVE-2017-10966) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-05-08
    modified2019-09-23
    plugin id129128
    published2019-09-23
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129128
    titleEulerOS 2.0 SP5 : irssi (EulerOS-SA-2019-1971)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3885.NASL
    descriptionMultiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Irssi, a terminal based IRC client. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2017-9468 Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi does not properly handle DCC messages without source nick/host. A malicious IRC server can take advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. - CVE-2017-9469 Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi does not properly handle receiving incorrectly quoted DCC files. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id100853
    published2017-06-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100853
    titleDebian DSA-3885-1 : irssi - security update
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_165E89514BE011E7A5390050569F7E80.NASL
    descriptionJoseph Bisch reports : When receiving a DCC message without source nick/host, Irssi would attempt to dereference a NULL pointer. When receiving certain incorrectly quoted DCC files, Irssi would try to find the terminating quote one byte before the allocated memory.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id100674
    published2017-06-08
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100674
    titleFreeBSD : irssi -- remote DoS (165e8951-4be0-11e7-a539-0050569f7e80)
  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2019-2477.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the versions of the irssi package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - In Irssi before 1.0.6, a calculation error in the completion code could cause a heap buffer overflow when completing certain strings.(CVE-2018-5208) - When using incomplete escape codes, Irssi before 1.0.6 may access data beyond the end of the string.(CVE-2018-5205) - When the channel topic is set without specifying a sender, Irssi before 1.0.6 may dereference a NULL pointer.(CVE-2018-5206) - When using an incomplete variable argument, Irssi before 1.0.6 may access data beyond the end of the string.(CVE-2018-5207) - The nickcmp function in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a message without a nick.(CVE-2017-5193) - Use-after-free vulnerability in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid nick message.(CVE-2017-5194) - Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a string containing a formatting sequence (%[) without a closing bracket (]).(CVE-2017-5356) - In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving a DCC message without source nick/host, it attempts to dereference a NULL pointer. Thus, remote IRC servers can cause a crash.(CVE-2017-9468) - In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving certain incorrectly quoted DCC files, it tries to find the terminating quote one byte before the allocated memory. Thus, remote attackers might be able to cause a crash.(CVE-2017-9469) - An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. When receiving messages with invalid time stamps, Irssi would try to dereference a NULL pointer.(CVE-2017-10965) - An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. While updating the internal nick list, Irssi could incorrectly use the GHashTable interface and free the nick while updating it. This would then result in use-after-free conditions on each access of the hash table.(CVE-2017-10966) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-05-08
    modified2019-12-04
    plugin id131630
    published2019-12-04
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/131630
    titleEulerOS 2.0 SP2 : irssi (EulerOS-SA-2019-2477)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-3317-1.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain DCC messages. A malicious IRC server could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9468) Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled receiving incorrectly quoted DCC files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9469). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id100755
    published2017-06-13
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2017-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100755
    titleUbuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 / 17.04 : irssi vulnerabilities (USN-3317-1)
  • NASL familySlackware Local Security Checks
    NASL idSLACKWARE_SSA_2017-158-01.NASL
    descriptionNew irssi packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id100703
    published2017-06-09
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100703
    titleSlackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : irssi (SSA:2017-158-01)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-75C571778E.NASL
    descriptionThis is new version with security fixes for CVE-2017-9468, CVE-2017-9469. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-07-10
    plugin id101327
    published2017-07-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/101327
    titleFedora 25 : irssi (2017-75c571778e)
  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2019-2595.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the versions of the irssi package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. When receiving messages with invalid time stamps, Irssi would try to dereference a NULL pointer.(CVE-2017-10965) - An issue was discovered in Irssi before 1.0.4. While updating the internal nick list, Irssi could incorrectly use the GHashTable interface and free the nick while updating it. This would then result in use-after-free conditions on each access of the hash table.(CVE-2017-10966) - In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving a DCC message without source nick/host, it attempts to dereference a NULL pointer. Thus, remote IRC servers can cause a crash.(CVE-2017-9468) - In Irssi before 1.0.3, when receiving certain incorrectly quoted DCC files, it tries to find the terminating quote one byte before the allocated memory. Thus, remote attackers might be able to cause a crash.(CVE-2017-9469) - In Irssi before 1.0.6, a calculation error in the completion code could cause a heap buffer overflow when completing certain strings.(CVE-2018-5208) - Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a string containing a formatting sequence (%[) without a closing bracket (]).(CVE-2017-5356) - The nickcmp function in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a message without a nick.(CVE-2017-5193) - Use-after-free vulnerability in Irssi before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid nick message.(CVE-2017-5194) - When the channel topic is set without specifying a sender, Irssi before 1.0.6 may dereference a NULL pointer.(CVE-2018-5206) - When using an incomplete variable argument, Irssi before 1.0.6 may access data beyond the end of the string.(CVE-2018-5207) - When using incomplete escape codes, Irssi before 1.0.6 may access data beyond the end of the string.(CVE-2018-5205) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-05-08
    modified2019-12-18
    plugin id132130
    published2019-12-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/132130
    titleEulerOS 2.0 SP3 : irssi (EulerOS-SA-2019-2595)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-1088.NASL
    descriptionIrssi has some issues where remote attackers might be able to cause a crash. CVE-2017-9468 In irssi, when receiving a DCC message without source nick/host, it attempts to dereference a NULL pointer. CVE-2017-9469 In irssi, when receiving certain incorrectly quoted DCC files, it tries to find the terminating quote one byte before the allocated memory. For Debian 7
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2017-09-05
    plugin id102926
    published2017-09-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102926
    titleDebian DLA-1088-1 : irssi security update
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2017-668.NASL
    descriptionThis update to irssi 1.0.3 fixes the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2017-9469: irssi: dcc crash with incorrect quoting (bsc#1043052) - CVE-2017-9468: irssi: dcc message crash without nick/host (bsc#1043051)
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-06-09
    plugin id100713
    published2017-06-09
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100713
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : irssi (openSUSE-2017-668)