Summary
It was discovered that Konversation, an IRC client for KDE, could be crashed when receiving malformed messages using FiSH encryption.
Solution
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.
Insight
Konversation is a client for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol.
It is easy to use and well-suited for novice IRC users, but novice and experienced users alike will appreciate its many features:
Affected
konversation on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-8483 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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