============================================================================ Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1821-1 May 09, 2013 telepathy-idle vulnerability ============================================================================ A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 13.04 - Ubuntu 12.10 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary: telepathy-idle could be made to expose sensitive information over the network. Software Description: - telepathy-idle: IRC connection manager for Telepathy Details: It was discovered that telepathy-idle did not perform any server certificate validation when using SSL connections. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to alter or compromise confidential information. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 13.04: telepathy-idle 0.1.14-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 12.10: telepathy-idle 0.1.12-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: telepathy-idle 0.1.11-2ubuntu0.1 After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes. References: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1821-1 CVE-2007-6746 Package Information: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-idle/0.1.14-1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-idle/0.1.12-1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-idle/0.1.11-2ubuntu0.1