CVE-2014-8483: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The blowfishECB function in core/cipher.cpp in Quassel IRC 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a malformed string.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.3 only; version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Quassel-Irc Quassel Irc: version 0.10.0 only

Published 2014-11-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.