Bug 1156418 (CVE-2014-8483)

Summary:	CVE-2014-8483 quassel, konversation: out-of-bounds read on a heap-allocated array
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	admiller, carnil, kevin, smparrish, s
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1156420, 1156421
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-10-24 12:30:58 UTC

It was reported [1] that there's an upstream commit [2] that fixes the issue [3] - it also fixes an out-of-bound read in quassel.

[1]: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/431
[2]: https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/8b5ecd226f9208af3074b33d3b7cf5e14f55b138
[3]: http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/1314

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-10-24 12:31:23 UTC

Created quassel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1156420]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1156421]

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-10-27 04:43:48 UTC

MITRE assigned CVE-2014-8483 to this issue (including for Konversation, bug 1157341):

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/448

Comment 3 Murray McAllister 2014-10-27 04:44:10 UTC

*** Bug 1157341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Murray McAllister 2014-11-05 00:08:28 UTC

KDE's advisory:

https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141104-1.txt

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-11-12 02:34:42 UTC

konversation-1.5.1-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-11-15 09:10:32 UTC

konversation-1.5.1-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-11-15 09:22:41 UTC

konversation-1.5.1-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-11-18 08:10:54 UTC

konversation-1.3.1-2.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2014-11-19 07:50:28 UTC

konversation-1.5.1-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:35:26 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.