Debian Security Advisory

DLA-168-1 konversation -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
07 Mar 2015
Affected Packages:
konversation
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 768191.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-8483.
More information:

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

For Debian 6 Squeeze, these issues have been fixed in konversation version 1.3.1-2+deb6u1