USN-991-1: quassel vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04

Packages

• quassel -

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

• quassel-core - 0.5.0-0ubuntu1.2
• quassel - 0.5.0-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 9.04

• quassel-core - 0.4.1-0ubuntu3.1
• quassel - 0.4.1-0ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• quassel-core - 0.6.1-0ubuntu1.1
• quassel - 0.6.1-0ubuntu1.1

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

References

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/629774