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Ubuntu: USN-4594-1 (CVE-2018-1000178): Quassel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4594-1 (CVE-2018-1000178): Quassel vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/08/2018
Created
10/22/2020
Added
10/21/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A heap corruption of type CWE-120 exists in quassel version 0.12.4 in quasselcore in void DataStreamPeer::processMessage(const QByteArray &msg) datastreampeer.cpp line 62 that allows an attacker to execute code remotely.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-quassel
  • ubuntu-upgrade-quassel-core

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