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Fedora 23: 2016-7f0b1e47ac Moderate Vulnerability in Quassel DoS

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 introduces a security patch for Quassel that mitigates CVE-2015-8547, blocking potential remote exploitation.
Added security fix for CVE-2015-8547

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:

Added security fix for CVE-2015-8547

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update fedora DoS moderate severity quassel

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1291231 - CVE-2015-8547 quassel: Remotely triggered DoS on a Quassel core https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291231

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 .

Name: quassel
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 0.12.2
Release: 6.fc23
URL: https://quassel-irc.org/
Summary: A modern distributed IRC system

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update fedora DoS moderate severity quassel

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