Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3463-1 prosody -- security update

Date Reported:
31 Jan 2016
Affected Packages:
prosody
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-0756.
More information:

It was discovered that insecure handling of dialback keys may allow a malicious XMPP server to impersonate another server.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.2-4+deb7u4.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.7-2+deb8u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.10-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your prosody packages.