Bug 1205130 (CVE-2015-2779)

Summary: CVE-2015-2779 quassel: incorrect message splitting leading to DoS
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Fixed In Version: quassel 0.12-rc1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 1205131, 1205132, 1205133    
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-03-24 10:08:32 UTC
A denial-of-service flaw was found in Quassel IRC, a distributed IRC client:

This patch fixes two bugs. The first is garbage characters caused by accidentally splitting the string in the middle of a multibyte character. Since the new code splits at a character level instead of a byte level, this will no longer be an issue. The second is the core crash caused by sending an overlength CTCP query ("/me") containing only multibyte characters. This bug was caused by the old CTCP splitter using the byte index from lastParamOverrun() as a character index for a QString.

https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-03-24 10:09:01 UTC
Created quassel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1205131]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1205132]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1205133]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-05-26 03:45:20 UTC
quassel-0.11.0-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-08-04 05:25:50 UTC
quassel-0.11.0-2.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-08-05 05:29:38 UTC
quassel-0.11.0-2.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 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:40:31 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.