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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.704033
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4033-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'konversation' package(s) announced via the DSA-4033-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'konversation' package(s) announced via the DSA-4033-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Joseph Bisch discovered that Konversation, an user friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for KDE, could crash when parsing certain IRC color formatting codes.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5-2+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your konversation packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'konversation' package(s) on Debian 8, Debian 9.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-15923
Debian Security Information: DSA-4033 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4033
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00020.html
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