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openSUSE Security Update : mcabber (openSUSE-2017-282)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97314

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

mcabber was updated to 1.0.5 to fix the following issues :

 - Much better performances with huge rosters.

 - Fix an issue with carbons (CVE-2017-5589, boo#1024690).

 - Fix a small memory leak.

 - contrib/vim: Support reloading filetype detection.

Solution

Update the affected mcabber packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024690

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97314

File Name: openSUSE-2017-282.nasl

Version: 3.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/22/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mcabber, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mcabber-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mcabber-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mcabber-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5589