The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-239f057b33 advisory. UnrealIRCd 6.1.3 The main focus of this release is adding countermeasures against large scale spam/drones. Upstream does this by offering a central API which can be used for accessing Central Blocklist, Central Spamreport and Central Spamfilter. ## Enhancements * Central anti-spam services: The services from below require a central-api key, which you can request here. * Central Blocklist is an attempt to detect and block spammers. It works similar to DNS Blacklists but the central blocklist receives many more details about the user that is trying to connect and therefore can make a better decision on whether a user is likely a spammer. Central Spamreport allows you to send spam reports (user details, last sent lines) via the SPAMREPORT command. This information may then be used to improve Central Blocklist and/or Central Spamfilter. * The Central Spamfilter, which provides spamfilter { } blocks that are centrally managed, is now fetched from a different URL if you have an Central API key set. This way, upstream can later provide spamfilter { } blocks that build on central blocklist scoring functionality, and also so upstream doesn't have to reveal all the central spamfilter blocks to the world. New option auto for set::hide-ban-reason, which is now the default. This will…Read More
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