CVE-2014-8483

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Published 2014-11-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

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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

The blowfishECB function in core/cipher.cpp in Quassel IRC 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a malformed string.

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.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.2	Affected	—
13.1	Affected	—
12.3	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.04	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.5-2`
sid	Fixed	`1.5-2`
forky	Fixed	`1.5-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.5-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.5-2`
7.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
quassel-irc	quassel_irc	`0.10.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-125

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

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