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Debian: DSA-4063-1 Urgent: XMPP Server DoS and Data Leak

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2014
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Attention Quassel users: A critical security issue related to out-of-bounds reading has been discovered, risking denial of service. Please update promptly to ensure system security.
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in Quassel-core, one of the components of the distributed IRC client Quassel
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Summary

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/



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Package: quassel
CVE ID: CVE-2014-8483

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