SB2015051314 - Resource management error in quassel (Alpine package)
Published: May 13, 2015
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015051314
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2778)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.