Bug 1291231 (CVE-2015-8547)

Summary:	CVE-2015-8547 quassel: Remotely triggered DoS on a Quassel core
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	admiller, carnil, lupinix.fedora, rdieter, smparrish, s
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1291232, 1291233
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-12-14 11:34:57 UTC

It was found that DoS can be remotely triggered by any client on a Quassel core by sending the command "/op *" in a query, which will cause Quassel core to crash.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b8edbda019eeb99da8663193e224efc9d1265dc7

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/478

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-12-14 11:35:27 UTC

Created quassel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1291232]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1291233]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-12-24 05:05:36 UTC

quassel-0.11.1-2.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 3 Fedora Update System 2016-01-05 21:54:44 UTC

quassel-0.12.2-6.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-01-05 22:53:56 UTC

quassel-0.12.2-6.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:46:28 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.