USN-2945-1: XChat-GNOME vulnerability
USN-2945-1: XChat-GNOME vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2945-1 4th April, 2016 xchat-gnome vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 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 anSSL certificate. An attacker could trick XChat-GNOME into trusting a rogueserver's certificate, which was signed by a trusted certificate authority,to perform a man-in-the-middle attack. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: 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 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to restart XChat-GNOME to makeall [ more… ]