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

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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
01/23/2017
Created
09/19/2020
Added
09/17/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-mcabber

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