PT-2014-8552 · Quassel Irc Team · Quassel Irc

Tucos · Published 2014-10-29 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2014-8483

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Quassel IRC version 0.10.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an out-of-bounds read, by providing a malformed string to the blowfishECB function in core/cipher.cpp.

Recommendations For Quassel IRC version 0.10.0, consider disabling the blowfishECB function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8483

DLA-168-1

DSA-3063-1

DSA-3068-1

MGASA-2014-0436

MGASA-2014-0437

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10238-1

USN-2401-1

Affected Products

Quassel Irc

References · 28

• https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/8b5ecd226f9208af3074b33d3b7cf5e14f55b138 · Patch
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0436.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8483 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0437 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3063 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/1314 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8483 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3068 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8483 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8483 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8483 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2401-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2401-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8483 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00068.html · Vendor Advisory