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FreeBSD : Matrix clients -- several vulnerabilities (e4d93d07-297a-11ed-95f8-901b0e9408dc)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 164623

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the e4d93d07-297a-11ed-95f8-901b0e9408dc advisory.

 - Thunderbird users who use the Matrix chat protocol were vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack. An adversary sharing a room with a user had the ability to carry out an attack against affected clients, making it not show all of a user's rooms or spaces and/or causing minor temporary corruption.
 (CVE-2022-36059)

 - Matrix developers report: The vulnerabilities give an adversary who you share a room with the ability to carry out a denial-of-service attack against the affected clients, making it not show all of a user's rooms or spaces and/or causing minor temporary corruption.
 (CVE-2022-36060)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c88f542b

http://www.nessus.org/u?93a7f055

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 164623

File Name: freebsd_pkg_e4d93d07297a11ed95f8901b0e9408dc.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 9/1/2022

Updated: 4/5/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-36059

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:cinny, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:element-web, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-36059, CVE-2022-36060