Critical severity · published May 8, 2018
CVE-2018-1000178
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…
9.8
CVSS
4.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.1% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
7.0; 8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
QU
Quassel · Quassel-irc
0.12.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000178
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000178
Patch
https://github.com/quassel/quassel/blob/master/src/common/protocols/datastream/datastreampeer.cpp#L62
Exploit
https://i.imgur.com/JJ4QcNq.png
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-04
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4594-1/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4189
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