CVE-2015-2778

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

10/04/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:quassel-irc:quassel::::::::		0.11.0 (including)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73305
https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73305
https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8