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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 201612-50
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 Severity: Normal
    Title: Openfire: Multiple vulnerabilities
     Date: December 31, 2016
     Bugs: #603604
       ID: 201612-50

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Openfire, the worst of
which could lead to privilege escalation.

Background
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Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a cross-platform real-time
collaboration server based on the XMPP (Jabber) protocol.

Affected packages
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     Package              /     Vulnerable     /            Unaffected
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  1  net-im/openfire              < 4.1.0                    >= 4.1.0 

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Openfire. Please
review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
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A remote attacker could bypass the CSRF protection mechanism, conduct
Cross-Site Scripting attacks, or an authenticated remote attacker could
gain privileges while accessing Openfire's web interface.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Openfire users should upgrade to the latest version:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/openfire-4.1.0"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2015-6972
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-6972
[ 2 ] CVE-2015-6973
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-6973
[ 3 ] CVE-2015-7707
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-7707

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-50

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2016 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/