The onReadyRead function in core/coreauthhandler.cpp in Quassel before 0.12.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via invalid handshake data.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The onReadyRead function in core/coreauthhandler.cpp in Quassel before 0.12.4 allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via invalid handshake data. (CVE-2016-4414)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Mitre reports :

The onReadyRead function in core/coreauthhandler.cpp in Quassel before 0.12.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via invalid handshake data.

This update for quassel fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2016-4414: Denial of service vulnerability by     unauthenticated clients (boo#978002)

Security fix for CVE-2016-4414, Update to latest upstream quassel release, 0.12.4

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254010	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-4414	Nessus	Misc.	high
91966	FreeBSD : quassel -- remote denial of service (7d64d00c-43e3-11e6-ab34-002590263bf5)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
91206	openSUSE Security Update : quassel (openSUSE-2016-589)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
90973	Fedora 24 : quassel-0.12.4-1.fc24 (2016-bf916bcc04)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
90953	Fedora 23 : quassel-0.12.4-1.fc23 (2016-42f30d76a0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
90946	Fedora 22 : quassel-0.12.4-1.fc22 (2016-0431acaa78)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2016-4414

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