Bug 1516531 (CVE-2017-15923) - CVE-2017-15923 konversation: Denial of service while parsing IRC color formatting codes
Summary: CVE-2017-15923 konversation: Denial of service while parsing IRC color format...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2017-15923
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1516532 1516533
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-11-22 20:35 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:31:52 UTC
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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.
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