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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-1000179: Quassel: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-1000179: Quassel: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/08/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/14/2018
Modified
06/14/2018

Description

A NULL Pointer Dereference of CWE-476 exists in quassel version 0.12.4 in the quasselcore void CoreAuthHandler::handle(const Login &msg) coreauthhandler.cpp line 235 that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-irc-quassel

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