Debian DSA-3463-1 : prosody - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 88498

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that insecure handling of dialback keys may allow a malicious XMPP server to impersonate another server.

Solution

Upgrade the prosody packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.2-4+deb7u4.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.7-2+deb8u3.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 88498

File Name: debian_DSA-3463.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/1/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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: 1/31/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0756

DSA: 3463

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