CVE-2015-2779 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2015-04-10

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 1.7% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:quassel-irc:quassel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-2869	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01703.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163054.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158666.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74048
https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8

History

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Subscriptions

Quassel-irc Quassel

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-04-10T14:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:24:38.903Z

Reserved: 2015-03-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-2779

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-04-10T15:00:05.147

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-2779

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-399

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