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quassel: denial of service

Package(s):quassel CVE #(s):CVE-2011-3354
Created:September 26, 2011 Updated:September 27, 2011
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

CtcpParser::packedReply in src/core/ctcpparser.cpp in Quassel does not process certain CTCP requests correctly, allowing a remote attacker connected to the same IRC network as the victim to cause a Denial of Service condition by sending specially crafted CTCP requests.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2011-12580 2011-09-13
Fedora FEDORA-2011-12614 2011-09-13
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