Debian DSA-4033-1 : konversation - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 104535

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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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104535

File Name: debian_DSA-4033.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/14/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:konversation, 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

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