Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | Empathy vulnerabilities |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-1250-1 | First vendor Publication | 2011-10-28 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2011-10-28 |
| 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:N/I:P/A:N) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 4.3 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | 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 11.10 - Ubuntu 11.04 - Ubuntu 10.10 - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Summary: Empathy could be made to run programs or display webpages via specially crafted nicknames. Software Description: - empathy: GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client Details: It was discovered that a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Adium theme allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary javascript or HTML via a crafted nickname in XMPP group conversations. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 11.10: Ubuntu 11.04: Ubuntu 10.10: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes. References: Package Information: |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1250-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-79 | Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17951 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17951 | ||
| Title: | USN-1250-1 -- empathy vulnerabilities | ||
| Description: | Empathy could be made to run programs or display webpages via specially crafted nicknames. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | USN-1250-1 CVE-2011-3635 CVE-2011-4170 | Version: | 7 |
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 11.10 Ubuntu 11.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 | Product(s): | empathy |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2011-10-31 | Name : Ubuntu Update for empathy USN-1250-1 File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1250_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 76823 | Empathy libempathy-gtk Adium Theme empathy-theme-adium.c theme_adium_append_m... |
| 76485 | Empathy libempathy-gtk Adium Theme empathy-theme-adium.c theme_adium_append_m... |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-06-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_3_empathy-111104.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-06-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_4_empathy-111104.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2011-12-13 | Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_11_empathy-111103.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2011-10-31 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-1250-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:59:12 |
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