PT-2014-8552
CVE-2014-8483
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Published
2014-10-29
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Updated
2018-10-30
Description by
CVSS 2.0
5.0
MediumMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Quassel IRC version 0.10.0
Description
The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an out-of-bounds read, by providing a malformed string to the blowfishECB function in core/cipher.cpp.
Recommendations
For Quassel IRC version 0.10.0, consider disabling the blowfishECB function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.
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