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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2015-04-10

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Quassel (Quassel-irc)

References

• 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