Debian DSA-4033-1 : konversation - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 104535

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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

Solution

Upgrade the konversation packages.

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.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881586

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/konversation

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/konversation

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4033

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104535

File Name: debian_DSA-4033.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:konversation, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15923

DSA: 4033