Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : telepathy-gabble vulnerabilities (USN-1873-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66886

Synopsis

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

Description

Maksim Otstavnov discovered that telepathy-gabble incorrectly handled TLS when connecting to legacy jabber servers. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information. (CVE-2013-1431)

It was discovered that telepathy-gabble incorrectly handled certain messages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause applications using telepathy-gabble to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10.
(CVE-2013-1769).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected telepathy-gabble package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1873-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66886

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1873-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2013

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:telepathy-gabble, 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: 6/12/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1431, CVE-2013-1769

BID: 58282, 60237

USN: 1873-1