glsa-202305-07.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202305-07">
    <title>slixmpp: Insufficient Certificate Validation</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in slixmpp which can result in successful man-in-the-middle attacks.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">slixmpp</product>
    <announced>2023-05-03</announced>
    <revised count="1">2023-05-03</revised>
    <bug>881181</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="dev-python/slixmpp" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">1.8.3</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.3</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>slixmpp is a Python 3 library for XMPP.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>slixmpp does not validate hostnames in certificates used by connected servers.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="low">
        <p>An attacker could perform a man-in-the-middle attack on users&#39; connections to servers with slixmpp.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All slixmpp users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --upgrade --verbose ">=dev-python/slixmpp-1.8.3"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-45197">CVE-2022-45197</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2023-05-03T09:47:07.895475Z">ajak</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2023-05-03T09:47:07.900775Z">sam</metadata>
</glsa>