Resource management error - CVE-2015-2779

 

Resource management error - CVE-2015-2779

Published: April 10, 2015 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33651
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2779
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

Stack consumption vulnerability in the message splitting functionality in Quassel before 0.12-rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncontrolled recursion) via a crafted massage.


Affected software

quassel (Alpine package)
quassel
Fedora

How to mitigate CVE-2015-2779

Install update from vendor's website.

quassel (Alpine package) - update to 0.12.2-r0
quassel - addressed in versions 0.11.0-2.el7, 0.11.0-2.fc21, 0.11.0-2.fc22

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