Debian DSA-3943-1 : gajim - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 102483

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Synopsis

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

Description

Gajim, a GTK+-based XMPP/Jabber client, unconditionally implements the 'XEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients' extension, allowing a malicious XMPP server to trigger commands to leak private conversations from encrypted sessions. With this update XEP-0146 support has been disabled by default and made opt-in via the 'remote_commands' option.

Solution

Upgrade the gajim packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.16-1+deb8u2.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed prior to the initial release.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 102483

File Name: debian_DSA-3943.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/15/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gajim, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10376

DSA: 3943

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