Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Gajim: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201208-04 First vendor Publication 2012-08-14
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2012-08-14
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gajim, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Gajim is a Jabber and XMPP client written in PyGTK.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Gajim. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted link using Gajim, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
Furthermore, a remote attacker could use a specially crafted Jabber ID, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary SQL statements.

A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Gajim users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/gajim-0.15-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-2085 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2085
[ 2 ] CVE-2012-2086 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2086
[ 3 ] CVE-2012-2093 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2093

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201208-04.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201208-04.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
33 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
33 % CWE-89 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
33 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 44

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-08-30 Name : Fedora Update for gajim FEDORA-2012-6161
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_6161_gajim_fc17.nasl
2012-08-30 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201208-04 (gajim)
File : nvt/glsa_201208_04.nasl
2012-04-30 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2453-1 (gajim)
File : nvt/deb_2453_1.nasl
2012-04-30 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2453-2 (gajim)
File : nvt/deb_2453_2.nasl
2012-04-30 Name : Fedora Update for gajim FEDORA-2012-6001
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_6001_gajim_fc15.nasl
2012-04-30 Name : Fedora Update for gajim FEDORA-2012-6061
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_6061_gajim_fc16.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-08-15 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201208-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-04-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-6001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-04-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-6061.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-04-27 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-6161.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-04-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2453.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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