Executive Summary

Summary
Title Gajim: Information disclosure
Informations
Name GLSA-201707-14 First vendor Publication 2017-07-10
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-07-10
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:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 3.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 6.8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Gajim might allow remote attackers to intercept encrypted communications.

Background

Gajim is a Jabber/XMPP client which uses GTK+.

Description

Gajim unconditionally implements the "XEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients" extension.

Impact

Remote attackers, by enticing a user to connect to a malicious XMPP server, could extract plaintext from Off The Record (OTR) encrypted sessions.

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-0.16.6-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-10376 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10376

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-14

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201707-14.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 45

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-08-15 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3943.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-e6deec5bd0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-10 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201707-14.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-3c561780c8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-62547837ba.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-09 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-665.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-31 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-967.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-07-11 13:24:30
  • Multiple Updates
2017-07-10 05:21:40
  • First insertion