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Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2017-15923)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Nov 15, 2017 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 15, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in Konversation before 1.7.3 when handling colors in IRC messages. Any malicious user connected to the same IRC network could send a carefully crafted message that would crash the Konversation user client.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2017-15923
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-15923
- URL-https://cgit.kde.org/konversation.git/commit/?h=1.7&id=6a7f59ee1b9dbc6e5cf9e5f3b306504d02b73ef0
- URL-https://konversation.kde.org/
- URL-https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00020.html
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201711-19
- URL-https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4033
- URL-https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20171112-1.txt
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