Gajim before 0.16.5 allows remote attackers to modify the roster and intercept messages via a crafted roster-push IQ stanza.

This update for python3-sleekxmpp fixes the following issues :

  - Check the origin of roster pushes (2015-8688, 2016-9928,     boo#1014976). Also see     https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interce     ption.html

  - An error in legacyauth support was fixed

This update for mcabber fixes the following issues :

  - Update to version 1.0.4 (changes since 1.0.2) :

  - Check the origin of roster pushes (boo#1014976,     CVE-2015-8688 (Gajim),     https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interce     ption.html)

  - Link with the tinfo library.

  - Fix default modules directory on OpenBSD.

  - Create the history log directory if it doesn't exist.

  - [OTR] Do not send empty subjects.

  - [UI] /set does not display password values anymore.

  - [MUC] Use nick to set the role.

  - Misc help/documentation updates.

Version 0.16.5 of Gajim has been released. What's new since 0.16.4: * Improve Message Archive Management implementation * Improve security on connexion and for roster management (CVE-2015-8688) Full changelog:
http://hg.gajim.org/gajim/file/gajim-0.16.5/ChangeLog List of fixed bugs: https://trac.gajim.org/query?status=closed&milestone=0.16.5

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

Affected versions of gajim allow remote attackers to modify the roster and intercept messages via a crafted roster-push IQ stanza.

This has been fixed in squeeze-lts by version 0.13.4-3+squeeze4.

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.

This update to gajim 0.16.5 fixes the following security issues :

  - CVE-2015-8688: Message interception due to unverified     origin of roster push - Improve security on connexion     and for roster managment (boo#960668)

The following on-security improvements were added :

  - Improve MAM implementation.

  - Ability for emoticons to be sorted in menu.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
96714	openSUSE Security Update : python3-sleekxmpp (openSUSE-2017-137)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
96064	openSUSE Security Update : mcabber (openSUSE-2016-1502)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
89611	Fedora 23 : gajim-0.16.5-1.fc23 (2016-c82e5c322c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
89572	Fedora 22 : gajim-0.16.5-1.fc22 (2016-838200213e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
88627	Debian DLA-413-1 : gajim security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
88119	openSUSE Security Update : gajim (openSUSE-2016-29)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2015-8688

medium

Tenable Plugins

high

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium