Debian DSA-3439-1 : prosody - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 87829

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Synopsis

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

Description

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Prosody, a lightweight Jabber/XMPP server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues :

- CVE-2016-1231 Kim Alvefur discovered a flaw in Prosody's HTTP file-serving module that allows it to serve requests outside of the configured public root directory. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw to access private files including sensitive data. The default configuration does not enable the mod_http_files module and thus is not vulnerable.

- CVE-2016-1232 Thijs Alkemade discovered that Prosody's generation of the secret token for server-to-server dialback authentication relied upon a weak random number generator that was not cryptographically secure. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to guess at probable values of the secret key and impersonate the affected domain to other servers on the network.

Solution

Upgrade the prosody packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.2-4+deb7u3.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.7-2+deb8u2.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87829

File Name: debian_DSA-3439.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/11/2016

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:prosody, 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: 1/10/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1231, CVE-2016-1232

DSA: 3439

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