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CVE-2014-8483

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1, 13.2
• Quassel-Irc Quassel Irc: 0.10.0

References

• http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/1314
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00028.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00046.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00068.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/61932
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62035
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62261
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3063
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3068
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2401-1
• https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/8b5ecd226f9208af3074b33d3b7cf5e14f55b138
• http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/1314

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