Mageia alert MGASA-2014-0436 (quassel)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2014-0436: Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerability 
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Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:31:03 +0100
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MGASA-2014-0436 - Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 29 Oct 2014
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0436.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 3, 4
CVE: CVE-2014-8483

Description:
Due to and out-of-bounds read issue in Quassel core in The ECB Blowfish
decryption function, a malicious client can cause either denial of service or
disclosure of information from process memory by using an improperly formed
message (CVE-2014-8483).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14384
- http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/1314
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/26/1
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8483

SRPMS:
- 4/core/quassel-0.9.2-1.1.mga4
- 3/core/quassel-0.9.2-1.1.mga3