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Fedora 23 : prosody-0.9.10-1.fc23 (2016-5a5c85c5a8)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89552

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Prosody 0.9.10 ============== A summary of changes in this release:
Security -------- * mod_dialback: Adopt key generation algorithm from XEP-0185, to prevent impersonation attacks (CVE-2016-0756) Fixes and improvements ---------------------- * Startup: Open /dev/urandom read-only, to fix a failure to start on some systems (fixes #585) * Networking: Improve handling of the 'select' network backend running out of file descriptors Minor changes ------------- * Networking:
Increase default internal read size to prevent connections stalling with LuaEvent (see #583) * DNS: Discard queries that failed to send due to connection errors (fixes #598) * c2s, s2s: Lower priority of shutdown handler, so that modules such as MUC can always send shutdown notifications to (remote) users (fixes #601)

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=1302463

http://www.nessus.org/u?45e844d0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89552

File Name: fedora_2016-5a5c85c5a8.nasl

Version: 1.5

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: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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: 2/5/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0756