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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.