GLSA 201612-50: Openfire: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Openfire: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	12/31/2016
Bugs:	#603604
ID:	201612-50

Synopsis

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

Background

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

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-im/openfire	< 4.1.0	>= 4.1.0	All supported architectures

Description

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

Impact

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

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Openfire users should upgrade to the latest version:

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

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201612-50.xml

Concerns?

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.