USN-1821-1: telepathy-idle vulnerability

Publication date

9 May 2013

Overview

telepathy-idle could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.


Packages

Details

It was discovered that telepathy-idle did not perform any server
certificate validation when using SSL connections. If a remote attacker
were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be
exploited to alter or compromise confidential information.

It was discovered that telepathy-idle did not perform any server
certificate validation when using SSL connections. If a remote attacker
were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be
exploited to alter or compromise confidential information.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
13.04 raring telepathy-idle –  0.1.14-1ubuntu0.1
12.10 quantal telepathy-idle –  0.1.12-1ubuntu0.1
12.04 precise telepathy-idle –  0.1.11-2ubuntu0.1

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