CVE-2018-1000179 Information

Description

A NULL Pointer Dereference of CWE-476 exists in quassel version 0.12.4 in the quasselcore void CoreAuthHandler::handle(const Login &msg) coreauthhandler.cpp line 235 that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/quassel/quassel/blob/master/src/core/coreauthhandler.cppL236 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-04 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4594-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4189

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5