Executive Summary

Summary
Title telepathy-idle vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1821-1 First vendor Publication 2013-05-09
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2013-05-09
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 13.04 - Ubuntu 12.10 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

telepathy-idle could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Software Description: - telepathy-idle: IRC connection manager for Telepathy

Details:

It was discovered that telepathy-idle did not perform any server certificate validation when using SSL connections. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to alter or compromise confidential information.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 13.04:
telepathy-idle 0.1.14-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
telepathy-idle 0.1.12-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
telepathy-idle 0.1.11-2ubuntu0.1

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1821-1
CVE-2007-6746

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-idle/0.1.14-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-idle/0.1.12-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-idle/0.1.11-2ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1821-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18178
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18178
Title: USN-1821-1 -- telepathy-idle vulnerability
Description: telepathy-idle could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1821-1
CVE-2007-6746
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): telepathy-idle
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25715
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25715
Title: SUSE-SU-2013:1364-1 -- Security update for telepathy-idle
Description: Telepathy-idle did not check SSL certificates. CVE-2007-6746 was assigned to this issue. Security Issue reference: * CVE-2007-6746 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6746 >
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2013:1364-1
CVE-2007-6746
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Product(s): telepathy-idle
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-427.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-21 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_telepathy-idle-130815.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-05-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1821-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-05-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-6534.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 12:01:55
  • Multiple Updates
2013-05-22 17:21:19
  • Multiple Updates
2013-05-22 00:21:54
  • Multiple Updates
2013-05-09 17:18:51
  • First insertion