Bug 1573318 - quassel: multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 0.12.5
Summary: quassel: multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 0.12.5
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1573319 1573320
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-30 20:22 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:38 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: quassel 0.12.5
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:20:53 UTC
Embargoed:


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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-04-30 20:22:12 UTC
Vuln 1:
Title: quasselcore, corruption of heap metadata caused by qdatastream
leading to preauth remote code execution.
Severity: high, by default the server port is publicly open and the address
can be requested using the /WHOIS command of IRC protocol.
Description: In Qdatastream protocol each object are prepended with 4 bytes
for the object size, this can be used to trigger allocation errors.


Vuln 2:
Title: quasselcore DDOS
Severity: low, impact only a quasselcore not configured.
Description: A login attempt causes a NULL pointer dereference because when
the database is not initialized.

References:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/653834
https://www.quassel-irc.org/node/130

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-04-30 20:22:41 UTC
Created quassel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1573320]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1573319]

Comment 2 Chris Egeland 2018-05-01 13:24:15 UTC
The vulnerabilities in this bug report have been assigned CVE numbers as follows:

Vuln 1: CVE-2018-1000178

Vuln 2: CVE-2018-1000179


Reference:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/81

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:20:53 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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