Debian Security Advisory

DLA-724-1 mcabber -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

27 Nov 2016

Affected Packages:

mcabber

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 845258.

More information:

It was discovered that there was a roster push attack [0] in mcabber, a console-based Jabber (XMPP) client.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, this issue has been fixed in mcabber version 0.10.1-3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mcabber packages.