CVE-2015-2779
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in the message splitting functionality in Quassel before 0.12-rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncontrolled recursion) via a crafted massage.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:0.10.0-2.3 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:0.10.0-2.3 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:0.10.0-2.3 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:0.10.0-2.3 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:0.10.0-2.3 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| quassel-irc | quassel | {"endIncluding":"0.11.0"} | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163054.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158666.html
- 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/74048
- https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2779
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.