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USN-991-1: quassel vulnerability

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USN-991-1: quassel vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/23/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/23/2010
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Jima discovered that quassel would respond to a single privmsgcontaining multiple CTCP requests with multiple NOTICEs, possiblyresulting in a denial of service against the IRC connection. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to restart quassel orquasselcore to make all the necessary changes. LP: 629774

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-quassel
  • ubuntu-upgrade-quassel-core

References

  • USN-991-1
  • CVE-2010-3443

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