=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1873-1
June 12, 2013
telepathy-gabble vulnerabilities
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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:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/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