VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-3443

medium
Published 2013-11-23 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

ctcphandler.cpp in Quassel before 0.6.3 and 0.7.x before 0.7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unresponsive IRC) via multiple Client-To-Client Protocol (CTCP) requests in a PRIVMSG message.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
10.04 Affected —
9.10 Affected —
9.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.7.1-1
sid Fixed 0.7.1-1
forky Fixed 0.7.1-1
bullseye Fixed 0.7.1-1
bookworm Fixed 0.7.1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
quassel-ircquassel_irc{"endIncluding":"0.6.2"}
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.1.0
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.3.0
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.3.0.1
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.3.0.2
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.3.0.3
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.3.1
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.4.0
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.4.1
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.4.2
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.4.3
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.5.0
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.6.1
quassel-ircquassel_irc0.7.0

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.