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Fedora 22: 2016-e289f41b76 Critical: Prosody Path Traversal and PRNG Issues

Prosody 0.9.9 -------------- * Fix path traversal vulnerability in mod_http_files (CVE-2016-1231) * Fix use of weak PRNG in generation of dialback secrets (CVE-2016-1232) Bugs ---- * Improve handling of CNAME records in DNS * Fix traceback when deleting a user in some configurations (issue #496) * MUC:. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-e289f41b76 2016-01-21 04:13:52.521214 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : prosody Product : Fedora 22 Version : 0.9.9 Release : 2.fc22 URL : https://prosody.im/ Summary : Flexible communications server for Jabber/XMPP Description : Prosody is a flexible communications server for Jabber/XMPP written in Lua. It aims to be easy to use, and light on resources. For developers it aims to be easy to extend and give a flexible system on which to rapidly develop added functionality, or prototype new protocols. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Prosody 0.9.9 ============= A summary of changes: Security fixes -------------- * Fix path traversal vulnerability in mod_http_files (CVE-2016-1231) * Fix use of weak PRNG in generation of dialback secrets (CVE-2016-1232) Bugs ---- * Improve handling of CNAME records in DNS * Fix traceback when deleting a user in some configurations (issue #496) * MUC: restrict_room_creation could prevent users from joining rooms (issue #458) * MUC: fix occasional dropping of iq stanzas sent privately between occupants * Fix a potential memory leak in mod_pep Additions --------- * Add http:list() command to telnet to view active HTTP services * Simplify IPv4/v6 address selection code for outgoing s2s * Add support for importing SCRAM hashes from ejabberd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1296984 - CVE-2016-1232 prosody: use ofweak PRNG in generation of dialback secrets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296984 [ 2 ] Bug #1296983 - CVE-2016-1231 prosody: path traversal vulnerability in mod_http_files https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296983 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update prosody' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-announce.lists.fedoraproject.org/ . Debian's latest security patch resolves severe vulnerabilities, such as privilege escalation and insufficient entropy concerns.. Fedora Security, Prosody Update, Path Traversal, PRNG Issues, XMPP Server. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jan 21, 2016 Fedora