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CVE-2015-8547

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• 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: 2016-01-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-17

Description

The CoreUserInputHandler::doMode function in core/coreuserinputhandler.cpp in Quassel 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via the "/op *" command in a query.

Affected products

• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
• Quassel-Irc Quassel: through 0.10.0

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174938.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174976.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00099.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/12/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/13/1
• https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b8edbda019eeb99da8663193e224efc9d1265dc7
• https://github.com/quassel/quassel/pull/153
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174938.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174976.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00099.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/12/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/13/1

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