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CVE-2014-8483

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Date: November 6, 2014

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.

Language: C++

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (15)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/61932

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8483

Url: https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/8b5ecd226f9208af3074b33d3b7cf5e14f55b138

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3063

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00046.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-8483

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3068

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/62261

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00028.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00068.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8483

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/62035

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2401-1

Url: http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/1314

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-8483

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 0.11.1

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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