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Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : quassel vulnerability (USN-991-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 49673

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Jima discovered that quassel would respond to a single privmsg containing multiple CTCP requests with multiple NOTICEs, possibly resulting in a denial of service against the IRC connection.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/991-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 49673

File Name: ubuntu_USN-991-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quassel-data, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quassel-core, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quassel-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quassel-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quassel-client-qt4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quassel-qt4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quassel

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2010

Reference Information

USN: 991-1