[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#881586: Konversation CVE-2017-15923

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Mon Nov 13 09:17:37 UTC 2017


Package: konversation
Tag: security

On Sun, 2017-11-12 at 17:01 -0500, Joseph Bisch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> See the November 11th security advisory for Konversation at:
> 
> https://konversation.kde.org/
> 
> Reproducer:
> 
> echo $'privmsg \x16\x033\x8e3\x2eqt/\x03e\xe2\x16\n' | nc -l -p 6667
> 
> and then connect to that with Konversation.
> 
> May require ASan or other method of detecting the use after free.

Thanks for the report, I'm adding Pino in the loop but since it's a public
vulnerability you can directly report it to the BTS.

Pino, can you prepare an update for sid, stretch and jessie (with isolated
patches for stable releases)?

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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