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Fedora 22 Quassel Security Update - CVE-2016-4414 Critical DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey May 6, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Tackling CVE-2016-4414, this patch improves quassel in Fedora 22 to provide users with a safer IRC interaction.
Security fix for CVE-2016-4414, Update to latest upstream quassel release, 0.12.4

Summary

Quassel IRC is a modern, distributed IRC client,

meaning that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach

to and detach from a central core --

much like the popular combination of screen and a

text-based IRC client such as WeeChat, but graphical

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-4414, Update to latest upstream quassel release, 0.12.4

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DoS quassel

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1332111 - CVE-2016-4414 quassel: IRC denial of service https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332111

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update quassel' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: quassel
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 0.12.4
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://quassel-irc.org/
Summary: A modern distributed IRC system

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DoS quassel

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