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Bug 637112 (CVE-2017-15923) - <net-irc/konversation-1.7.4: Crash in parsing IRC color formatting codes
Summary: <net-irc/konversation-1.7.4: Crash in parsing IRC color formatting codes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2017-15923
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename...
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa cve]
Keywords:
: 636634 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2017-11-10 23:25 UTC by Andreas Sturmlechner
Modified: 2017-11-19 18:02 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Package list:
net-irc/konversation-1.7.4
Runtime testing required: ---
stable-bot: sanity-check+

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Description Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev 2017-11-10 23:25:28 UTC 
"Recently, we have been alerted to a Konversation bug that will result in a crash when parsing certain IRC color formatting codes. Konversation v1.7.3 has been addressed today (see release post below) and contains a fix for this bug. [...]"

See also $URL - no CVE number yet.
Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev 2017-11-10 23:27:52 UTC 
*** Bug 636634 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev 2017-11-14 22:07:45 UTC 
See also: https://konversation.kde.org/
Comment 3 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev 2017-11-16 11:26:07 UTC 
1.7.4 was pushed to fix a small regression in .3. Let's stabilise this version.
Comment 4 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2017-11-19 06:14:32 UTC 
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=36d5d1ee683c56a9fb9d18be0e885c3e849d5d57

commit 36d5d1ee683c56a9fb9d18be0e885c3e849d5d57
Author:     Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2017-11-19 06:13:01 +0000
Commit:     Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2017-11-19 06:14:22 +0000

    net-irc/konversation: remove vulnerable
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/637112
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.8, Repoman-2.3.4

 net-irc/konversation/Manifest                      |  1 -
 .../files/konversation-1.7.2-extjoin-crash.patch   | 47 -------------
 .../files/konversation-1.7.2-focus.patch           | 25 -------
 .../files/konversation-1.7.2-memleak.patch         | 33 ----------
 net-irc/konversation/konversation-1.7.2-r1.ebuild  | 77 ----------------------
 net-irc/konversation/konversation-1.7.2.ebuild     | 71 --------------------
 6 files changed, 254 deletions(-)

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=90d044d83df928d4e7c1bff40e7165c90824d14e

commit 90d044d83df928d4e7c1bff40e7165c90824d14e
Author:     Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2017-11-19 06:12:26 +0000
Commit:     Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2017-11-19 06:14:21 +0000

    net-irc/konversation: stabilise 1.7.4 for amd64/x86
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/637112
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.8, Repoman-2.3.4

 net-irc/konversation/konversation-1.7.4.ebuild | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)}