CVE-2014-8483 — Out-of-bounds Read in Quassel

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read7 documents6 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
3.2%
top 12.97%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
8
KonversationQuassel-irc QuasselDebian Konversation+5 more
Timeline
PublishedNov 6
Latest updateMay 14

Description

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages6 packages

▶debiandebian/quassel< konversation 1.5-2 (bookworm)
▶Debianquassel-irc/quassel< 0.10.0-2.1+3
▶debiandebian/konversation< konversation 1.5-2 (bookworm)
▶Debiankonversation/konversation< 1.5-2+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, Ubuntu Linux 12.04

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-vgxr-2jwm-83q2: The blowfishECB function in core/cipher↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2014-8483: The blowfishECB function in core/cipher↗2014-11-06
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Konversation vulnerability↗2014-11-10
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Debian
CVE-2014-8483: konversation - The blowfishECB function in core/cipher.cpp in Quassel IRC 0.10.0 allows remote ...↗2014
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
konversation: out-of-bounds read flaw↗2014-10-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-8483 quassel, konversation: out-of-bounds read on a heap-allocated array↗2014-10-24
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