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CVE-2018-1000178

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-05-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• Quassel-Irc Quassel: 0.12.4

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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