Executive Summary

Summary
Title telepathy-gabble vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-1873-1 First vendor Publication 2013-06-12
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2013-06-12
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:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 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:

Several security issues were fixed in telepathy-gabble.

Software Description: - telepathy-gabble: Jabber/XMPP connection manager

Details:

Maksim Otstavnov discovered that telepathy-gabble incorrectly handled TLS when connecting to legacy jabber servers. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information. (CVE-2013-1431)

It was discovered that telepathy-gabble incorrectly handled certain messages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause applications using telepathy-gabble to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2013-1769)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 13.04:
telepathy-gabble 0.16.5-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
telepathy-gabble 0.16.1-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
telepathy-gabble 0.16.0-0ubuntu3.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1873-1
CVE-2013-1431, CVE-2013-1769

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-gabble/0.16.5-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-gabble/0.16.1-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-gabble/0.16.0-0ubuntu3.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1873-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues
50 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17003
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17003
Title: USN-1873-1 -- telepathy-gabble vulnerabilities
Description: Several security issues were fixed in telepathy-gabble.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): usn-1873-1
CVE-2013-1431
CVE-2013-1769
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 13.04
Product(s): telepathy-gabble
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19892
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19892
Title: DSA-2702-1 telepathy-gabble - TLS verification bypass
Description: Maksim Otstavnov discovered that the Wocky submodule used by telepathy-gabble, the Jabber/XMPP connection manager for the Telepathy framework, does not respect the tls-required flag on legacy Jabber servers. A network intermediary could use this vulnerability to bypass TLS verification and perform a man-in-the-middle attack.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2702-1
CVE-2013-1431
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 7
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7
Product(s): telepathy-gabble
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26044
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26044
Title: SUSE-SU-2013:0697-1 -- Security update for telepathy-gabble
Description: telepathy-gabble was updated to fix several remotely-triggerable NULL crashes (CVE-2013-1769) Security Issues: * CVE-2013-1769 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1769 >
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2013:0697-1
CVE-2013-1769
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Product(s): telepathy-gabble
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 9

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-238.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-492.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-9794.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-13 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1873-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-06 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_a3c2dee5cdb911e2b9ce080027019be0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-05 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2702.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-04-18 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_telepathy-gabble-130315.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-3379.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-3439.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 12:02:08
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-21 21:25:06
  • Multiple Updates
2013-09-26 17:22:51
  • Multiple Updates
2013-09-24 21:23:25
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2013-09-24 13:22:22
  • Multiple Updates
2013-06-12 17:18:22
  • First insertion