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CVE-2015-2778

Quassel before 0.12-rc1 uses an incorrect data-type size when splitting a message, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long CTCP query containing only multibyte characters.

Published

2015-04-10T15:00:04.210

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-399

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	quassel-irc	quassel	≤ 0.11.0	Yes

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73305 ([email protected])
https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8 ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73305 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)