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openSUSE Security Update : konversation (openSUSE-2017-1305)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104768

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for konversation fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

 - CVE-2017-15923: Fix a crash in parsing IRC color formatting codes (boo#1068097).

Solution

Update the affected konversation packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1068097

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104768

File Name: openSUSE-2017-1305.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/27/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:konversation, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:konversation-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:konversation-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:konversation-lang

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15923