Critical
Security advisory
A heap corruption of type CWE-120 exists in quassel version 0.12.4 in quasselcore in void DataStreamPeer::processMessage(const QByteArray &msg) datastreampeer.cpp line 62 that allows an attacker to execute code remotely.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1000178
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A heap corruption of type CWE-120 exists in quassel version 0.12.4 in quasselcore in void DataStreamPeer::processMessage(const QByteArray &msg) datastreampeer.cpp line 62 that allows an attacker to execute code remotely.
osv:CVE-2018-1000178
Complete source record
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