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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: USN-4594-1 Critical: Quassel Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4595-1 highlights significant vulnerabilities in qemu that affect system reliability and overall safety.
Quassel could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

Quassel could be made to crash or run programs if it received

specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description:

- quassel: distributed IRC client - monolithic core+client

Details:

It was discovered that Quassel incorrectly handled Qdatastream protocol. A

remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

(CVE-2018-1000178)

It was discovered that Quassel incorrectly handled certain login requests.

A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of

service. (CVE-2018-1000179)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote code execution Ubuntu quassel

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  quassel                         1:0.12.4-3ubuntu1.18.04.3
  quassel-core                    1:0.12.4-3ubuntu1.18.04.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4594-1

CVE-2018-1000178, CVE-2018-1000179

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October 20, 2020

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security advisory denial of service remote code execution Ubuntu quassel

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quassel/1:0.12.4-3ubuntu1.18.04.3

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