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FreeBSD : prosody -- user impersonation vulnerability (50394bc9-c5fa-11e5-96a5-d93b343d1ff7)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 88466

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Synopsis

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

Description

The Prosody team reports :

Adopt key generation algorithm from XEP-0185, to prevent impersonation attacks (CVE-2016-0756)

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206707

https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160127/

http://www.nessus.org/u?b90afdec

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 88466

File Name: freebsd_pkg_50394bc9c5fa11e596a5d93b343d1ff7.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Published: 1/29/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: 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: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:prosody, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 1/28/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0756