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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : quassel vulnerability (USN-1200-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56161

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that Quassel did not properly handle CTCP requests.
A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash.

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Solution

Update the affected quassel-core package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1200-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56161

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1200-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/12/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quassel-core, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2011

Reference Information

BID: 49526

USN: 1200-1