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Fedora 23 : prosody-0.9.9-2.fc23 (2016-38e48069f8)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89514

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Prosody 0.9.9 ============= A summary of changes: Security fixes
-------------- * Fix path traversal vulnerability in mod_http_files (CVE-2016-1231) * Fix use of weak PRNG in generation of dialback secrets (CVE-2016-1232) Bugs ---- * Improve handling of CNAME records in DNS * Fix traceback when deleting a user in some configurations (issue #496) * MUC: restrict_room_creation could prevent users from joining rooms (issue #458) * MUC: fix occasional dropping of iq stanzas sent privately between occupants * Fix a potential memory leak in mod_pep Additions --------- * Add http:list() command to telnet to view active HTTP services * Simplify IPv4/v6 address selection code for outgoing s2s * Add support for importing SCRAM hashes from ejabberd

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

Solution

Update the affected prosody package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296983

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296984

http://www.nessus.org/u?780f4759

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89514

File Name: fedora_2016-38e48069f8.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

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

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:prosody

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2016

Reference Information

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