| Name | CVE-2014-8483 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-168-1, DSA-3063-1, DSA-3068-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 766962, 768191 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| konversation (PTS) | buster | 1.7.5-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 20.12.1-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 22.12.3-1 | fixed | |
| quassel (PTS) | buster | 1:0.13.1-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:0.13.1-5 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 1:0.14.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| konversation | source | squeeze | 1.3.1-2+deb6u1 | DLA-168-1 | ||
| konversation | source | wheezy | 1.4-1+deb7u1 | DSA-3068-1 | ||
| konversation | source | (unstable) | 1.5-2 | 768191 | ||
| quassel | source | squeeze | (not affected) | |||
| quassel | source | wheezy | 0.8.0-1+deb7u3 | DSA-3063-1 | ||
| quassel | source | (unstable) | 0.10.0-2.1 | 766962 |
[squeeze] - quassel <not-affected> (Problematic code does not exist in 0.6.3-2+squeeze2)
https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/8b5ecd226f9208af3074b33d3b7cf5e14f55b138
http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/1314
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210792