An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in Quassel-core, one of the components of the distributed IRC client Quassel. An attacker can send a crafted message that crash to component causing a denial of services or disclosure of information from process memory.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.0-1+deb7u3. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.0-2.1 (will be available soon). We recommend that you upgrade your quassel packages.

Quassel is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one or more clients can attach to and detach from the central core. It's much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat or irssi, but graphical.

quassel on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3063.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25