High severity7.5OSV Advisory· Published May 8, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-1000179

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.

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Affected products

Quassel Irc/QuasselOSV3 versions
0.10-beta1, 0.10-pre, 0.10-rc1, …+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: 0.10-beta1, 0.10-pre, 0.10-rc1, …
- cpe:2.3:a:quassel-irc:quassel:0.12.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: =0.12.4
Debian/linux2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/quassel/quassel/blob/master/src/core/coreauthhandler.cppnvdExploitThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-04nvdThird Party Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4189nvdThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com/4594-1/nvd

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