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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-1596: Openfire: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-1596: Openfire: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/11/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Ignite Realtime Openfire before 3.6.5 does not properly implement the register.password (aka canChangePassword) console configuration setting, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended policy and change their own passwords via a passwd_change IQ packet.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-im-openfire

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