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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2401-1
November 10, 2014

konversation vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Konversation could be made to crash if it received specially crafted
network traffic.

Software Description:

• konversation: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for KDE

Details:

Manuel Nickschas discovered that Konversation did not properly perform
input sanitization when using Blowfish ECB encryption. A remote attacker
could exploit this to cause a denial of service.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
konversation 1.4-1ubuntu2.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Konversation to make
all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2401-1
CVE-2014-8483

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/konversation/1.4-1ubuntu2.1

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