CVE-2018-1000178
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 4.1% (pctl 91)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 4.13% — more likely to be exploited than 91% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-787 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2018-05-08 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| debian | debian linux |
| quassel-irc | quassel |
References
- https://github.com/quassel/quassel/blob/master/src/common/protocols/datastream/datastreampeer.cpp#L62
- https://i.imgur.com/JJ4QcNq.png
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00001.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-04
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4594-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4189
- https://github.com/quassel/quassel/blob/master/src/common/protocols/datastream/datastreampeer.cpp#L62
- https://i.imgur.com/JJ4QcNq.png
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00001.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-04
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4594-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4189
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