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Ubuntu: USN-4506-1 (CVE-2016-9928): MCabber vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 23, 2017
Added
Sep 17, 2020
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-mcabber
Title
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