Bug 1516531 (CVE-2017-15923)

Summary:	CVE-2017-15923 konversation: Denial of service while parsing IRC color formatting codes
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	kde-sig, rdieter, smparrish
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Bug Depends On:	1516532, 1516533
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-11-22 20:35:29 UTC

Konversation 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to parsing of IRC color formatting codes.

Upstream patch:

https://cgit.kde.org/konversation.git/commit/?h=1.7&id=6a7f59ee1b9dbc6e5cf9e5f3b306504d02b73ef0

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-11-22 20:35:56 UTC

Created konversation tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1516533]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1516532]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2017-11-28 16:20:11 UTC

konversation-1.7.4-1.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2017-11-28 17:32:47 UTC

konversation-1.7.4-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:31:52 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.