Re: CVE request: Quassel < 0.7.3 CTCP request core DoS

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

Please use CVE-2011-3354.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
>
> please assign a CVE for the following issue:
> CtcpParser::packedReply in src/core/ctcpparser.cpp in Quassel does not
> process
> certain CTCP requests correctly, allowing a remote attacker connected
> to the
> same IRC network as the victim to cause a Denial of Service condition
> by
> sending specially crafted CTCP requests. This was demonstrated in
> various
> exploits on freenode today.
>
> Gentoo tracks the issue in [1], upstream fix is [2].
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382313
> [2] http://git.quassel-
> irc.org/?p=quassel.git;a=commit;h=da215fcb9cd3096a3e223c87577d5d4ab8f8518b
>
> --
> Alex Legler <a3li () gentoo org>
> Gentoo Security / Ruby