CVE-2015-2778 (GCVE-0-2015-2778)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-04-10 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:24
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Summary
Quassel before 0.12-rc1 uses an incorrect data-type size when splitting a message, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long CTCP query containing only multibyte characters.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2230 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2015-02-21 00:00
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