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TITLE:
irssi Denial of Service and SSL Hostname Verification Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39365

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in irssi, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and
bypass certain security restrictions.

1) The application does not properly verify the hostname of the
server when using SSL connections. This can be exploited to e.g.
conduct Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks.

2) An unspecified error can be exploited to cause a crash.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.8.15.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.irssi.org/news

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