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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2702-1 (telepathy-gabble - TLS verification bypass)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Maksim Otstavnov discovered that the Wocky submodule used by telepathy-gabble, the Jabber/XMPP connection manager for the Telepathy framework, does not respect the tls-required flag on legacy Jabber servers. A network intermediary could use this vulnerability to bypass TLS verification and perform a man-in-the-middle attack.
Affected Software
Affected Software
telepathy-gabble on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.15-1+squeeze2. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.16.5-1+deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.16.6-1. We recommend that you upgrade your telepathy-gabble packages.