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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3943-1 (gajim - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
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.