Ubuntu Security Notice 2401-1 - 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.
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2401-1
November 10, 2014
konversation vulnerability
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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