Advisories » MGASA-2013-0170

Updated telepathy-gabble package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 18 Jun 2013
Modification date: 18 Jun 2013
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 2 , 3
CVE: CVE-2013-1431

Description

Maksim Otstavnov discovered that the Wocky submodule used by
telepathy-gabble does not respect the tls-required flag on legacy
Jabber servers. A network intermediary could use this vulnerability to
bypass TLS verification and perform a man-in-the-middle attack.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10432
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2702
• http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2013-May/006450.html
• http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2013-May/006449.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1431

SRPMS

2/core

• telepathy-gabble-0.16.6-1.mga2

3/core

• telepathy-gabble-0.17.4-1.mga3