Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-8483

Title: Quassel-Irc Quassel Irc Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-8483.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date Nov 06, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.34%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-8483: The blowfishECB function in core/cipher.cpp in Quassel IRC 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a malformed string.

Impacted Vendors

quassel-irc 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/1314 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00028.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00046.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00068.html http://secunia.com/advisories/61932 http://secunia.com/advisories/62035 http://secunia.com/advisories/62261 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3063 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3068 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2401-1 https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/8b5ecd226f9208af3074b33d3b7cf5e14f55b138 http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/1314 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00028.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00046.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00068.html http://secunia.com/advisories/61932 http://secunia.com/advisories/62035 http://secunia.com/advisories/62261 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3063 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3068 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2401-1 https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/8b5ecd226f9208af3074b33d3b7cf5e14f55b138

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-8483 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 06, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.