Debian DLA-881-1 : ejabberd security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 99139

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was found that ejabberd does not enforce the starttls_required setting when compression is used, which causes clients to establish connections without encryption.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.10-4+deb7u2.

This update also disables the insecure SSLv3.

We recommend that you upgrade your ejabberd packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected ejabberd package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 99139

File Name: debian_DLA-881.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/3/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ejabberd, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8760

BID: 70415

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