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konversation -- crash in IRC message parsing

Affected packages
		konversation	<	1.7.3

Details

VuXML ID	795ccee1-c7ed-11e7-ad7d-001e2a3f778d
Discovery	2017-10-27
Entry	2017-11-12

KDE reports:

Konversation has support for colors in IRC messages. Any malicious user connected to the same IRC network can send a carefully crafted message that will crash the Konversation user client.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2017-15923
URL	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15923
URL	https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20171112-1.txt