Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-2779 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Quassel-Irc Quassel
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2015-4689.NASL description Security fix BZ1205130 - patch for CTCP Denial of Service New upstream release of Quassel IRC Client Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2015-08-04 plugin id 85185 published 2015-08-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/85185 title Fedora 21 : quassel-0.11.0-2.fc21 (2015-4689) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2015-4689. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(85185); script_version("2.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-2779"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2015-4689"); script_name(english:"Fedora 21 : quassel-0.11.0-2.fc21 (2015-4689)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Security fix BZ1205130 - patch for CTCP Denial of Service New upstream release of Quassel IRC Client Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205130" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163054.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?05292685" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected quassel package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:quassel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/03/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/08/04"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^21([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 21.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC21", reference:"quassel-0.11.0-2.fc21")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "quassel"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2015-294.NASL description The IRC client quassel was updated to fix two security issues. The following vulnerabilities were fixed : - quassel could crash when receiving an overlength CTCP query containing only multibyte characters (bnc#924930 CVE-2015-2778) - quassel could incorrectly split a message in the middle of a multibyte character, leading to DoS (bnc#924933 CVE-2015-2779) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2015-04-09 plugin id 82652 published 2015-04-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/82652 title openSUSE Security Update : quassel (openSUSE-2015-294) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2015-294. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(82652); script_version("1.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-2778", "CVE-2015-2779"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : quassel (openSUSE-2015-294)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2015-294 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The IRC client quassel was updated to fix two security issues. The following vulnerabilities were fixed : - quassel could crash when receiving an overlength CTCP query containing only multibyte characters (bnc#924930 CVE-2015-2778) - quassel could incorrectly split a message in the middle of a multibyte character, leading to DoS (bnc#924933 CVE-2015-2779)" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924930" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924933" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected quassel packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-base"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-client"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-client-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-core"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-core-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-mono"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-mono-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/04/02"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/04/09"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE13\.1|SUSE13\.2)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "13.1 / 13.2", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"quassel-base-0.9.2-19.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"quassel-client-0.9.2-19.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"quassel-client-debuginfo-0.9.2-19.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"quassel-core-0.9.2-19.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"quassel-core-debuginfo-0.9.2-19.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"quassel-debugsource-0.9.2-19.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"quassel-mono-0.9.2-19.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"quassel-mono-debuginfo-0.9.2-19.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"quassel-base-0.10.0-3.7.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"quassel-client-0.10.0-3.7.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"quassel-client-debuginfo-0.10.0-3.7.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"quassel-core-0.10.0-3.7.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"quassel-core-debuginfo-0.10.0-3.7.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"quassel-debugsource-0.10.0-3.7.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"quassel-mono-0.10.0-3.7.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"quassel-mono-debuginfo-0.10.0-3.7.1") ) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "quassel-base / quassel-client / quassel-client-debuginfo / etc"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2015-4531.NASL description Security fix BZ1205130 - patch for CTCP Denial of Service Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2015-05-27 plugin id 83821 published 2015-05-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/83821 title Fedora 22 : quassel-0.11.0-2.fc22 (2015-4531) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2015-4531. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(83821); script_version("2.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-2779"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2015-4531"); script_name(english:"Fedora 22 : quassel-0.11.0-2.fc22 (2015-4531)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Security fix BZ1205130 - patch for CTCP Denial of Service Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205130" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158666.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4c2de647" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected quassel package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:quassel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/03/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/05/27"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^22([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 22.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC22", reference:"quassel-0.11.0-2.fc22")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "quassel"); }
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3
- https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163054.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158666.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74048