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openSUSE Security Update : quassel (openSUSE-2015-294)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82652

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The IRC client quassel was updated to fix two security issues.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

 - quassel could crash when receiving an overlength CTCP query containing only multibyte characters (bnc#924930 CVE-2015-2778)

 - quassel could incorrectly split a message in the middle of a multibyte character, leading to DoS (bnc#924933 CVE-2015-2779)

Solution

Update the affected quassel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924930

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924933

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82652

File Name: openSUSE-2015-294.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/9/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-core, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-core-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-mono, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-mono-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2778, CVE-2015-2779