irssi: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in irssi, the worst of which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. irssi 2017-01-19 2017-01-19 604772 remote 0.8.21 0.8.21

irssi is a modular textUI IRC client with IPv6 support.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in irssi. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All irssi users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/irssi-0.8.21" CVE-2017-5193 CVE-2017-5194 CVE-2017-5195 CVE-2017-5196 b-man b-man