MGASA-2013-0170

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    MGASA-2013-0170

    Published: 18 Jun 2013Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-1431

    Summary: Updated telepathy-gabble package fixes security vulnerability

    Details: Maksim Otstavnov discovered that the Wocky submodule used by telepathy-gabble 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.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0170.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10432, http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2702, http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2013-May/006450.html, http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2013-May/006449.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: telepathy-gabble

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/telepathy-gabble?arch=source&distro=mageia-2

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.16.6-1.mga2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High