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Debian DSA-1774-1 : ejabberd - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36174

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that ejabberd, a distributed, fault-tolerant Jabber/XMPP server, does not sufficiently sanitise MUC logs, allowing remote attackers to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected by this issue.

Solution

Upgrade the ejabberd packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1-6+lenny1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1774

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36174

File Name: debian_DSA-1774.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/17/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ejabberd

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0934

BID: 34133

CWE: 79

DSA: 1774