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USN-1821-1: telepathy-idle vulnerability

9 May 2013

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

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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.

Reduce your security exposure

Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

Learn more about Ubuntu Pro

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04

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

References