UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8483

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8483

    Published: 29 Oct 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-8483
    Aliases:
    USN-2401-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8483, https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141104-1.txt, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2401-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8483

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: konversation

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.5-1ubuntu1.14.04.1

    Affected versions

    1.5~rc1+git20130415-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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