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Mageia Linux Local Check: mgasa-2016-0166
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
7 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
Mageia Linux Local Security Checks mgasa-2016-0166
Insight
Insight
Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerability: It was found that quasselcore is vulnerable to a denial of service attack by unauthenticated clients. The protocol negotiation did not take into account lack of a match in handshake data, in which case PeerFactory::createPeer returns a nullptr, which is immediately dereferenced (CVE-2016-4414).
Solution
Solution
Update the affected packages to the latest available version.