Quassel Core CTCP Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Release date: 2011-09-08
Updated on: 2011-09-08

Affected Systems:
Quassel IRC Team Quassel
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 49526

Quassel is a cross-platform distributed IRC client based on the Qt4 framework.

Quassel has a remote denial-of-service vulnerability. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability to crash the affected application and cause denial of service to legitimate users.

<* Source: Alex Legler

Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi? Id = 382313
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Quassel IRC Team
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://quassel-irc.org/