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Debian DSA-2169-1 : telepathy-gabble - insufficient input validation

high Nessus Plugin ID 52032

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that telepathy-gabble, the Jabber/XMPP connection manager for the Telepathy framework, is processing google:jingleinfo updates without validating their origin. This may allow an attacker to trick telepathy-gabble into relaying streamed media data through a server of his choice and thus intercept audio and video calls.

Solution

Upgrade the telepathy-gabble packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.6-1+lenny1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.15-1+squeeze1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/telepathy-gabble

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2169

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 52032

File Name: debian_DSA-2169.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/20/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:telepathy-gabble, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2011

Reference Information

DSA: 2169