Upstream information

CVE-2015-2778 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 924930 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2015:0687-1

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sat Mar 28 07:44:03 2015
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:22:33 2025