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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS USN-4306-1: Dino Input Validation Issues

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Calendar Grey March 17, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4306-1 highlights significant vulnerabilities in dino-im related to the management of confidential data.
Several security issues were fixed in dino-im.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in dino-im.

Software Description:

- dino-im: modern XMPP client

Details:

It was discovered that Dino incorrectly validated inputs. An attacker could use

this issue to possibly obtain, inject or remove sensitive information.

This update also includes a fix to the encryption implementation in Dino to

support 12 byte IVs, in addition to 16 byte IVs.

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Topics Covered

security advisory input validation ubuntu sensitive information encryption fix dino-im

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  dino-im                         0.0.git20180130-1ubuntu0.1
  dino-im-common                  0.0.git20180130-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4306-1

CVE-2019-16235, CVE-2019-16236, CVE-2019-16237, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dino-im/+bug/1866115

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March 17, 2020

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Topics Covered

security advisory input validation ubuntu sensitive information encryption fix dino-im

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dino-im/0.0.git20180130-1ubuntu0.1

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