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Fedora 23: Security Advisory for Quassel IRC Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey May 6, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 has released an update targeting CVE-2016-4414 in quassel, improving its security through the incorporation of the most recent version.
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

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical issue update Fedora 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 23
Version: 0.12.4
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://quassel-irc.org/
Summary: A modern distributed IRC system

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical issue update Fedora quassel

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