A telepathy-gabble security update has been released for Debian
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2702-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
June 03, 2013 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : telepathy-gabble
Vulnerability : TLS verification bypass
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2013-1431
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.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.15-1+squeeze2.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.16.5-1+deb7u1.
For the testing distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.16.6-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your telepathy-gabble packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
