Executive Summary

Summary
Title Konversation vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2401-1 First vendor Publication 2014-11-10
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2014-11-10
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2401-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27742
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27742
Title: DSA-3068-1 -- konversation security update
Description: It was discovered that Konversation, an IRC client for KDE, could be crashed when receiving malformed messages using FiSH encryption.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-3068-1
CVE-2014-8483
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
Product(s): konversation
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28022
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28022
Title: DSA-3063-1 -- quassel security update
Description: An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in Quassel-core, one of the components of the distributed IRC client Quassel. An attacker can send a crafted message that crash to component causing a denial of services or disclosure of information from process memory.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-3063-1
CVE-2014-8483
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
Product(s): quassel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28136
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28136
Title: USN-2401-1 -- Konversation vulnerability
Description: 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.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2401-1
CVE-2014-8483
Version: 3
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): konversation
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-168.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-251.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-13702.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-13791.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-659.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-13837.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-11 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-638.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-11 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2401-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-10 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3068.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-06 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_0167f5ad64ea11e498c100269ee29e57.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-04 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3063.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-11-12 13:27:31
  • Multiple Updates
2014-11-10 21:23:23
  • First insertion