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.

Security fix BZ1205130 - patch for CTCP Denial of Service New upstream release of Quassel IRC Client

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security fix BZ1205130 - patch for CTCP Denial of Service

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The IRC client quassel was updated to fix two security issues.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

  - quassel could crash when receiving an overlength CTCP     query containing only multibyte characters (bnc#924930     CVE-2015-2778)

  - quassel could incorrectly split a message in the middle     of a multibyte character, leading to DoS (bnc#924933     CVE-2015-2779)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
85185	Fedora 21 : quassel-0.11.0-2.fc21 (2015-4689)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
83821	Fedora 22 : quassel-0.11.0-2.fc22 (2015-4531)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
82652	openSUSE Security Update : quassel (openSUSE-2015-294)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2015-2779

high

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium