CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-1000179
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-05-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
A NULL Pointer Dereference of CWE-476 exists in quassel version 0.12.4 in the quasselcore void CoreAuthHandler::handle(const Login &msg) coreauthhandler.cpp line 235 that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service.
Affected configurations
• quassel-irc quassel 0.12.4
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/quassel/quassel/blob/master/src/core/coreauthhandler.cpp#L236 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-04 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4594-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4189 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/quassel/quassel/blob/master/src/core/coreauthhandler.cpp#L236 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-04 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4594-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4189 Third Party Advisory