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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : telepathy-idle vulnerability (USN-1821-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66372

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that telepathy-idle did not perform any server certificate validation when using SSL connections. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to alter or compromise confidential information.

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Solution

Update the affected telepathy-idle package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1821-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66372

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1821-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/10/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:telepathy-idle, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6746

BID: 59474

USN: 1821-1