Debian: DSA-3068-1: konversation security update

Date07 Nov 2014

Posted ByLinuxSecurity Advisories

It was discovered that Konversation, an IRC client for KDE, could by crashed when receiving malformed messages using FiSH encryption. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3068-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
http://www.debian.org/security/                        Moritz Muehlenhoff
November 07, 2014                      http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : konversation
CVE ID         : CVE-2014-8483

It was discovered that Konversation, an IRC client for KDE, could by
crashed when receiving malformed messages using FiSH encryption.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4-1+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your konversation packages.

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