Advisories » MGASA-2017-0049

Updated jitsi packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 18 Feb 2017
Modification date: 18 Feb 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-5603

Description

An incorrect implementation of XEP-0280: Message Carbons in Jitsi and
other XMPP clients allows a remote attacker to impersonate any user,
including contacts, in the vulnerable application's display. This allows
for various kinds of social engineering attacks (CVE-2017-5603).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20273
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5603

SRPMS

5/core

• jitsi-2.6-1.1.mga5