PT-2018-9349 · Quassel+1 · Quassel+1

Published 2018-05-02 · Updated 2020-10-26 · CVE-2018-1000179

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions quassel version 0.12.4

Description A NULL Pointer Dereference issue exists in the handle function of CoreAuthHandler in coreauthhandler.cpp at line 235, allowing an attacker to cause a denial of service.

Recommendations For quassel version 0.12.4, consider disabling the CoreAuthHandler::handle() function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-1000179

DSA-4189-1

MGASA-2018-0243

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11291-1

USN-4594-1

Affected Products

Ubuntu

Quassel

References · 23

• 🔥 https://github.com/quassel/quassel/blob/master/src/core/coreauthhandler.cpp#L236 · Exploit
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0243.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4594-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000179 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1000179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4189-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4189 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-04 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0243 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4594-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000178 · Vendor Advisory