DSA-4033-1 konversation -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4033-1 konversation -- security update

Date Reported:

13 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

konversation

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 881586.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-15923.

More information:

Joseph Bisch discovered that Konversation, an user friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for KDE, could crash when parsing certain IRC color formatting codes.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5-2+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your konversation packages.