Description
MCabber before 1.0.4 is vulnerable to roster push attacks, which allows remote attackers to intercept communications, or add themselves as an entity on a 3rd party's roster as another user, which will also garner associated privileges, via crafted XMPP packets.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
MCabber MCabber
before 1.0.4affected
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790 ↗
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258 ↗
- https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw ↗
- https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/ ↗