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TITLE:
Konversation D-Bus Unicode Denial of Service Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38711

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38711/

DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in Konversation, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to an error within the Konversation D-Bus
interaction related to certain Unicode characters, which can be
exploited to crash the application.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.3.
http://konversation.kde.org/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Ken Rushia

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
KDE Bug #219985:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219985

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