UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2778

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2778
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2778.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2778
Upstream
Published
2015-04-10T15:00:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:43:21Z
Severity
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Quassel before 0.12-rc1 uses an incorrect data-type size when splitting a message, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long CTCP query containing only multibyte characters.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / quassel

Package

Name
quassel
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/quassel@0.10.0-0ubuntu2.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.10.0-0ubuntu2.2

Affected versions

0.*
0.9.1-0ubuntu1
0.9.2-0ubuntu1
0.9.2-0ubuntu2
0.9.2-0ubuntu3
0.9.2-0ubuntu4
0.10~beta1-0ubuntu1
0.10~rc1-0ubuntu1
0.10.0-0ubuntu1
0.10.0-0ubuntu2
0.10.0-0ubuntu2.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "quassel",
            "binary_version": "0.10.0-0ubuntu2.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "quassel-client",
            "binary_version": "0.10.0-0ubuntu2.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "quassel-client-qt4",
            "binary_version": "0.10.0-0ubuntu2.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "quassel-core",
            "binary_version": "0.10.0-0ubuntu2.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "quassel-data",
            "binary_version": "0.10.0-0ubuntu2.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "quassel-qt4",
            "binary_version": "0.10.0-0ubuntu2.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "quassel-qt4-data",
            "binary_version": "0.10.0-0ubuntu2.2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2778.json"