Executive Summary

Summary
Title XChat-GNOME vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2945-1 First vendor Publication 2016-04-04
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-04-04
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 15.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

XChat-GNOME could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Software Description: - xchat-gnome: simple and featureful IRC client for GNOME

Details:

It was discovered that XChat-GNOME incorrectly verified the hostname in an SSL certificate. An attacker could trick XChat-GNOME into trusting a rogue server's certificate, which was signed by a trusted certificate authority, to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10:
xchat-gnome 1:0.30.0~git20141005.816798-0ubuntu6.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
xchat-gnome 1:0.30.0~git20131003.d20b8d+really20110821-0.2ubuntu12.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
xchat-gnome 1:0.30.0~git20110821.e2a400-0.2ubuntu4.3

After a standard system update you need to restart XChat-GNOME to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2945-1
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1565000

Package Information:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat-gnome/1:0.30.0~git20141005.816798-0ubuntu6.2

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat-gnome/1:0.30.0~git20131003.d20b8d+really20110821-0.2ubuntu12.2

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat-gnome/1:0.30.0~git20110821.e2a400-0.2ubuntu4.3

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2945-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 1
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-04-05 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2945-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2016-05-06 21:56:02
  • Multiple Updates
2016-04-21 21:28:42
  • Multiple Updates
2016-04-06 13:26:47
  • Multiple Updates
2016-04-04 21:24:37
  • First insertion