VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8547

high
Published 2016-01-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The CoreUserInputHandler::doMode function in core/coreuserinputhandler.cpp in Quassel 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via the "/op *" command in a query.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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
suse SUSE Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected —
13.2 Affected —
13.1 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:0.12.2-3
sid Fixed 1:0.12.2-3
forky Fixed 1:0.12.2-3
bullseye Fixed 1:0.12.2-3
bookworm Fixed 1:0.12.2-3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
quassel-ircquassel{"endIncluding":"0.10.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-17

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

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