Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-2778

Title: Quassel-Irc Quassel Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-2778.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Apr 10, 2015
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.61%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-2778: Quassel before 0.12-rc1 uses an incorrect data-type size when splitting a message, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long CTCP query containing only multibyte characters.

Impacted Vendors

Q
quassel-irc 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73305 https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73305 https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8
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-2015-2778 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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.