Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2401-1
10th November, 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 version:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
konversation
1.4-1ubuntu2.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart Konversation to make
all the necessary changes.