Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | XChat-GNOME vulnerability |
Informations | |||
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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 | |||
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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) | |||
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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: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: After a standard system update you need to restart XChat-GNOME to make all the necessary changes. References: 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 |
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100 % | CWE-310 | Cryptographic Issues |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Type | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 | |
Application | 1 | |
Os | 3 |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
Date | Description |
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2016-04-05 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-2945-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
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2016-05-06 21:56:02 |
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2016-04-21 21:28:42 |
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2016-04-06 13:26:47 |
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2016-04-04 21:24:37 |
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