Debian DSA-2775-1 : ejabberd - insecure SSL usage

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70375

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that ejabberd, a Jabber/XMPP server, uses SSLv2 and weak ciphers for communication, which are considered insecure. The software offers no runtime configuration options to disable these.
This update disables the use of SSLv2 and weak ciphers.

The updated package for Debian 7 (wheezy) also contains auxiliary bugfixes originally staged for the next stable point release.

Solution

Upgrade the ejabberd packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.5-3+squeeze2.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.10-4+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70375

File Name: debian_DSA-2775.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/11/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ejabberd

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6169

DSA: 2775

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