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Acts1631 801c342a53 scram: cap server-supplied iteration count
The server-first-message in SCRAM SASL authentication carries an
i=<iteration_count> field that controls the PBKDF2 work factor.
Previously irssi parsed this with strtoul and only rejected the zero
case, then passed the value directly to PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC.

Because the call is synchronous on the glib main loop and the 20-second
SASL_TIMEOUT source is registered via g_timeout_add, a malicious
server can send i=4294967295 (or larger) and deterministically hang
irssi for the duration of the iteration count. Each reconnect attempt
repeats the DoS.

RFC 5802 section 5.1 explicitly allows a client to enforce a maximum
iteration count. 100000 is well above any real-world server
configuration (typically a few thousand) and bounds the worst-case
PBKDF2 cost to a fraction of a second on modern hardware.
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AUTHORS Add OTR support. 2018-02-26 23:32:57 +01:00
COPYING Update FSF address. 2007-05-08 17:51:51 +00:00
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Irssi

Build Status

Irssi is a modular text mode chat client. It comes with IRC support built in, and there are third party ICB, SILC, XMPP (Jabber), PSYC and Quassel protocol modules available.

irssi

Download information

Development source installation

Ninja 1.8 and Meson 0.53

git clone https://github.com/irssi/irssi
cd irssi
meson Build
ninja -C Build && sudo ninja -C Build install

Release source installation

  • Download release
  • Verify signature
tar xJf irssi-*.tar.xz
cd irssi-*
meson Build
ninja -C Build && sudo ninja -C Build install

Requirements

See the INSTALL file for details

Documentation

Themes

Scripts

Modules

Security information

Please report security issues to staff@irssi.org. Thanks!

Bugs / Suggestions / Contributing

Check the GitHub issues if it is already listed in there; if not, open an issue on GitHub or send a mail to staff@irssi.org.

Irssi is always looking for developers. Feel free to submit patches through GitHub pull requests.

You can also contact the Irssi developers in #irssi on irc.libera.chat.