Debian Linux Security Advisory 2169-1 - It was discovered that telepathy-gabble, the Jabber/XMMP connection manager for the Telepathy framework, is processing google:jingleinfo updates without validating their origin. This may allow an attacker to trick telepathy-gabble into relaying streamed media data through a server of his choice and thus intercept audio and video calls.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2169-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde
February 16, 2011 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : telepathy-gabble
Vulnerability : insufficient input validation
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : none yet
It was discovered that telepathy-gabble, the Jabber/XMMP connection manager
for the Telepathy framework, is processing google:jingleinfo updates without
validating their origin. This may allow an attacker to trick telepathy-gabble
into relaying streamed media data through a server of his choice and thus
intercept audio and video calls.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.7.6-1+lenny1.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.15-1+squeeze1.
For the testing (wheezy) and unstable (sid) distributions, this problem
will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your telepathy-gabble packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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