USN-991-1: quassel vulnerability

Publication date

23 September 2010

Overview


Packages

Details

Jima discovered that quassel would respond to a single privmsg
containing multiple CTCP requests with multiple NOTICEs, possibly
resulting in a denial of service against the IRC connection.

Jima discovered that quassel would respond to a single privmsg
containing multiple CTCP requests with multiple NOTICEs, possibly
resulting in a denial of service against the IRC connection.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart quassel or quasselcore to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
9.10 karmic quassel-core –  0.5.0-0ubuntu1.2
quassel –  0.5.0-0ubuntu1.2
9.04 jaunty quassel-core –  0.4.1-0ubuntu3.1
quassel –  0.4.1-0ubuntu3.1
10.04 lucid quassel-core –  0.6.1-0ubuntu1.1
quassel –  0.6.1-0ubuntu1.1

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