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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3063-1 quassel -- security update

Date Reported:

02 Nov 2014

Affected Packages:

quassel

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 766962.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-8483.

More information:

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in Quassel-core, one of the components of the distributed IRC client Quassel. An attacker can send a crafted message that crash to component causing a denial of services or disclosure of information from process memory.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.0-1+deb7u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.0-2.1 (will be available soon).

We recommend that you upgrade your quassel packages.