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Debian 7: DLA-1174-1 Important: Konversation Denial of Service Patch

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
A vulnerability causing excessive resource consumption in konversation for Debian 7 has been fixed in version 1.4-1+deb7u2. Update for better security.
It was discovered that there was a denial of service vulnerability in the konversation IRC client related to parsing of color formatting codes

Summary

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in konversation version
1.4-1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your konversation packages.


Regards,

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Package: konversation
Version: 1.4-1+deb7u2
CVE ID: CVE-2017-15923
Debian Bug: #881586

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