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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3943-1 (gajim - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Low

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

3.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

6 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Gajim, a GTK+-based XMPP/Jabber client, unconditionally implements the 'XEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients' extension, allowing a malicious XMPP server to trigger commands to leak private conversations from encrypted sessions. With this update XEP-0146 support has been disabled by default and made opt-in via the remote_commands option.

Affected Software

Affected Software

gajim 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 (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.16-1+deb8u2. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed prior to the initial release. We recommend that you upgrade your gajim packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)