FreeBSD : quassel -- multiple vulnerabilities (499f6b41-58db-4f98-b8e7-da8c18985eda)

high Nessus Plugin ID 109383

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Gentoo reports :

quasselcore: corruption of heap metadata caused by qdatastream leading to preauth remote code execution.

- Severity: high, by default the server port is publicly open and the address can be requested using the /WHOIS command of IRC protocol.

- Description: In Qdatastream protocol each object is prepended with 4 bytes for the object size, this can be used to trigger allocation errors.

quasselcore DDOS

- Severity: low, only impacts unconfigured quasselcore instances.

- Description: A login attempt causes a NULL pointer dereference when the database is not initialized.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653834

http://www.nessus.org/u?a42bacbf

http://www.nessus.org/u?d66087ee

http://www.nessus.org/u?7b667a8d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 109383

File Name: freebsd_pkg_499f6b4158db4f98b8e7da8c18985eda.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 4/27/2018

Updated: 12/19/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:quassel, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:quassel-core, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2018