Debian DLA-967-1 : gajim security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 100516

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Gajim implements XEP-0146, an XMPP extension to run commands remotely from another client. However it was found that malicious servers can trigger commands, which could lead to leaking private conversations from encrypted sessions. To solve this, XEP-0146 support has been disabled by default.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.15.1-4.1+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your gajim packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected gajim package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/05/msg00036.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/gajim

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 100516

File Name: debian_DLA-967.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/31/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gajim, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10376