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Ubuntu 15.10 USN-2945-1 Critical: XChat-GNOME Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey April 4, 2016
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XChat-GNOME flaw opens doors to revealing private data across the internet. Ensure you patch your system promptly.
XChat-GNOME could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Summary

XChat-GNOME could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Software Description:

- xchat-gnome: simple and featureful IRC client for GNOME

Details:

It was discovered that XChat-GNOME incorrectly verified the hostname in an

SSL certificate. An attacker could trick XChat-GNOME into trusting a rogue

server's certificate, which was signed by a trusted certificate authority,

to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu update instructions critical severity information exposure man-in-the-middle XChat-GNOME

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
  xchat-gnome                     1:0.30.0~git20141005.816798-0ubuntu6.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  xchat-gnome
1:0.30.0~git20131003.d20b8d+really20110821-0.2ubuntu12.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  xchat-gnome                     1:0.30.0~git20110821.e2a400-0.2ubuntu4.3

After a standard system update you need to restart XChat-GNOME to make
all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2945-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat-gnome/+bug/1565000

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April 04, 2016

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu update instructions critical severity information exposure man-in-the-middle XChat-GNOME

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat-gnome/1:0.30.0~git20141005.816798-0ubuntu6.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat-gnome/1:0.30.0~git20131003.d20b8d+really20110821-0.2ubuntu12.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat-gnome/1:0.30.0~git20110821.e2a400-0.2ubuntu4.3

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