CVE-2015-2778

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2015-2778 · Published 10/04/2015 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-2778 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting quassel (quassel-irc).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.6%, higher than 85.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
quassel quassel-irc	`≤ 0.11.0`	No fix yet

Description

Quassel before 0.12-rc1 uses an incorrect data-type size when splitting a message, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long CTCP query containing only multibyte characters.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3
securityfocus.com/bid/73305
quassel/quassel commit b5e3897

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

quassel

quassel-irc

≤ 0.11.0

No fix yet

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