USN-1873-1: telepathy-gabble vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.04
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• 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 machine-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

• 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

• CVE-2013-1431
• CVE-2013-1769