SB2016012910 - Spoofing attack in Prosody
Published: January 29, 2016 Updated: June 8, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016012910
CSH 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 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.
References
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-10-released/
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176796.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176914.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3463
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/27/10
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82241
- https://prosody.im/issues/issue/596
- https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160127/