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Fedora 28 : prosody (2018-18f8c6ce79)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120258

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Prosody 0.10.2 ==============

See upstream's blog post at https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-10-2-security-release/ for a full overview of the release changes.

Prosody 0.10.2 fixes a cross-host authentication vulnerability, CVE-2018-10847. The issue affects Prosody instances that have multiple virtual hosts (including anonymous authenticated hosts). All versions of Prosody before 0.9.14 and 0.10.2 are affected. A full security advisory is available at https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20180531

Security

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 - mod_c2s: Do not allow the stream ‘to’ to change across stream restarts (fixes #1147)

Minor changes

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 - mod_websocket: Store the request object on the session for use by other modules (fixes #1153)

 - mod_c2s: Avoid concatenating potential nil value (fixes #753)

 - core.certmanager: Allow all non-whitespace in service name (fixes #1019)

 - mod_disco: Skip code specific to disco on user accounts (avoids invoking usermanager, fixes #1150)

 - mod_bosh: Store the normalized hostname on session (fixes #1151)

 - MUC: Fix error logged when no persistent rooms present (fixes #1154)

Dowstream

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 - Changed log rotation from weekly/52 to local system defaults

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

Solution

Update the affected prosody package.

See Also

https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-10-2-security-release/

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-18f8c6ce79

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120258

File Name: fedora_2018-18f8c6ce79.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:prosody, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10847