Debian DLA-2260-1 : mcabber security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 137863

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a 'roster push attack' in mcabber, a console-based Jabber (XMPP) client. This is identical to CVE-2015-8688

for gajim.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.2-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mcabber 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 mcabber package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 137863

File Name: debian_DLA-2260.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/29/2020

Updated: 3/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9928

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mcabber

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9928

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