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telepathy-gabble: man-in-the-middle attack

Package(s):telepathy-gabble CVE #(s):CVE-2013-1431
Created:June 4, 2013 Updated:June 18, 2013
Description: From the Debian advisory:

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.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-2702-1 2013-06-03
Fedora FEDORA-2013-9794 2013-06-09
Ubuntu USN-1873-1 2013-06-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:1013-1 2013-06-14
Mageia MGASA-2013-0170 2013-06-18

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