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Posted on 02 November 2014
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3063-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Luciano Bello
November 02, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : quassel
CVE ID : CVE-2014-8483
Debian Bug : 766962
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.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
