Executive Summary

Summary
Title Quassel vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1200-1 First vendor Publication 2011-09-10
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2011-09-10
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 11.04 - Ubuntu 10.10 - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

A remote attacker could send crafted input to Quassel and cause it to crash.

Software Description: - quassel: KDE/Qt-based IRC client

Details:

It was discovered that Quassel did not properly handle CTCP requests. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 11.04:
quassel-core 0.7.2-0ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 10.10:
quassel-core 0.7.1-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
quassel-core 0.6.1-0ubuntu1.2

After a standard system update you need to restart Quassel to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1200-1
https://launchpad.net/bugs/845707

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quassel/0.7.2-0ubuntu2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quassel/0.7.1-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quassel/0.6.1-0ubuntu1.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1200-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 13

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-04-02 Name : Fedora Update for quassel FEDORA-2011-12569
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_12569_quassel_fc16.nasl
2011-09-27 Name : Fedora Update for quassel FEDORA-2011-12580
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_12580_quassel_fc14.nasl
2011-09-27 Name : Fedora Update for quassel FEDORA-2011-12614
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_12614_quassel_fc15.nasl
2011-09-12 Name : Ubuntu Update for quassel USN-1200-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1200_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
75351 Quassel IRC src/core/ctcpparser.cpp CtcpParser::packedReply() Method CTCP Mes...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2011-10-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-12569.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-09-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-12580.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-09-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-12614.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-09-12 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1200-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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