Security advisory

{
  "id": "c4569e6ee0360bf6d0e8c759ed5c06872817747b4d79acdbc34b144bc430980e",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1000179",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-1000179",
    "summary": "A NULL Pointer Dereference of CWE-476 exists in quassel version 0.12.4 in the quasselcore void CoreAuthHandler::handle(const Login &msg) coreauthhandler.cpp line 235 that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-1000179",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-1000179",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-1000179"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/quassel/quassel",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "90183eeb030dd4dda32e4f107e8bcf13f393388d"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "90183eeb030dd4dda32e4f107e8bcf13f393388d"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:quassel-irc:quassel:0.12.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.12.4"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.12.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.12.4"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1000179.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:49:32.085590307Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4594-1/",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-04",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4189",
        "https://github.com/quassel/quassel/blob/master/src/core/coreauthhandler.cpp#L236"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-1000179",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380521,
  "published_at": "2018-05-08T15:29:00.723+00:00"
}