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CVE-2018-1000179

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-05-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

A NULL Pointer Dereference of CWE-476 exists in quassel version 0.12.4 in the quasselcore void CoreAuthHandler::handle(const Login &msg) coreauthhandler.cpp line 235 that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service.

Affected products

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

References

• https://github.com/quassel/quassel/blob/master/src/core/coreauthhandler.cpp#L236
• 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/core/coreauthhandler.cpp#L236
• 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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