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Debian: DSA-4033-1 Important Security Update For Konversation IRC Client

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2017
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Enhance Konversation post DSA-4033-1: identified crash problem related to IRC formatting. Refer to Debian Security for specifics.
Joseph Bisch discovered that Konversation, an user friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for KDE, could crash when parsing certain IRC color formatting codes

Summary

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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: konversation
CVE ID: CVE-2017-15923

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