CVE-2015-2779

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the message splitting functionality in Quassel before 0.12-rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncontrolled recursion) via a crafted massage.

Affected products

Quassel-Irc Quassel: through 0.11.0

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163054.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158666.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74048
https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163054.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158666.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12

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