Advisories » MGASA-2018-0243

Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 16 May 2018
Modification date: 16 May 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2018-1000178 , CVE-2018-1000179

Description

A heap corruption exists in quassel version 0.12.4 in quasselcore that
allows an attacker to execute code remotely (CVE-2018-1000178).

A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in quassel version 0.12.4 in the
quasselcore that allows an atacker to denial of service by attempting a
login when the database is not initialized (CVE-2018-1000179).

The Mageia 5 package has been patched to fix these issues and the
Mageia 6 package has been upgraded to version 0.12.5, which also has
other fixes and improvements.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22957
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/05/01/1
• https://quassel-irc.org/node/130
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000178
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000179

SRPMS

5/core

• quassel-0.10.1-5.3.mga5

6/core

• quassel-0.12.5-1.mga6