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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3068-1 konversation -- security update

Date Reported:

07 Nov 2014

Affected Packages:

konversation

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-8483.

More information:

It was discovered that Konversation, an IRC client for KDE, could be crashed when receiving malformed messages using FiSH encryption.

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 1.5-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your konversation packages.