Konversation: Various vulnerabilities

Konversation: Various vulnerabilities Konversation contains multiple vulnerabilities that could lead to remote command execution or information leaks. konversation January 24, 2005 January 24, 2005: 01 78712 remote 0.15.1 0.15.1

Konversation is a user-friendly IRC client for KDE.

Wouter Coekaerts has discovered three vulnerabilities within Konversation:

The Server::parseWildcards function, which is used by the "Quick Buttons", does not properly handle variable expansion (CAN-2005-0129).
Perl scripts included with Konversation do not properly escape shell metacharacters (CAN-2005-0130).
The 'Nick' and 'Password' fields in the Quick Connect dialog can be easily confused (CAN-2005-0131).

A malicious server could create specially-crafted channels, which would exploit certain flaws in Konversation, potentially leading to the execution of shell commands. A user could also unintentionally input their password into the 'Nick' field in the Quick Connect dialog, exposing his password to IRC users, and log files.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Konversation users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/konversation-0.15.1"

CAN-2005-0129 CAN-2005-0130 CAN-2005-0131 KDE Security Advisory: Multiple vulnerabilities in Konversation jaervosz koon lewk