CVE-2018-1000178

moderate-risk
Published 2018-05-08

A heap corruption of type CWE-120 exists in quassel version 0.12.4 in quasselcore in void DataStreamPeer::processMessage(const QByteArray &msg) datastreampeer.cpp line 62 that allows an attacker to execute code remotely.

Do I need to act?

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1.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (4)

Quassel

Affected Vendors

Debian Quassel-Irc

References (12)

Patch https://github.com/quassel/quassel/blob/master/src/common/protocols/datastream/d...
Exploit https://i.imgur.com/JJ4QcNq.png
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-04
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4594-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4189
Patch https://github.com/quassel/quassel/blob/master/src/common/protocols/datastream/d...
Exploit https://i.imgur.com/JJ4QcNq.png
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-04
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4594-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4189
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 3/34 · Minimal
Exposure 10/34 · Low