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CVE-2015-2779
Stack consumption vulnerability in the message splitting functionality in Quassel before 0.12-rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in the message splitting functionality in Quassel before 0.12-rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncontrolled recursion) via a crafted massage.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 14% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150320 CVE request: denial of service in Quassel (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 74048 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0687 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150327 Re: CVE request: denial of service in Quassel (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-4689 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150328 Re: CVE request: denial of service in Quassel (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-4531 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-2869 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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