CVE-2016-4414 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Quassel versions prior to 0.12.4, affecting products like Fedora and openSUSE. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application by sending invalid handshake data, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), it represents a network-based attack with low complexity and no user interaction required, resulting in high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 0.12.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:quassel-irc:quassel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
23CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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