CVE-2018-1000179: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Quassel-Irc Quassel: version 0.12.4 only

Published 2018-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.