Executive Summary

Summary
Title konversation security update
Informations
Name DSA-3068 First vendor Publication 2014-11-07
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2014-11-07
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

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

It was discovered that Konversation, an IRC client for KDE, could by crashed when receiving malformed messages using FiSH encryption.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-1+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your konversation packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3068

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
2014-11-11 13:25:59
  • Multiple Updates
2014-11-07 13:23:59
  • First insertion