Bug 1291231 (CVE-2015-8547) - CVE-2015-8547 quassel: Remotely triggered DoS on a Quassel core
Summary: CVE-2015-8547 quassel: Remotely triggered DoS on a Quassel core
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2015-8547
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1291232 1291233
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-14 11:34 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:40 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:46:28 UTC
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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.


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