SB2016012810 - Fedora EPEL 5 update for prosody
Published: January 28, 2016 Updated: June 28, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016012810
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0756)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of user-supplied data when generating dialback keys within the generate_dialback() function in the mod_dialback module. A remote attacker can spoof XMPP network domains via a crafted stream id and domain name that is included in the target domain as a suffix.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.