High severity7.4NVD Advisory· Published Feb 6, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-9928
CVE-2016-9928
Description
MCabber before 1.0.4 is vulnerable to roster push attacks, which allows remote attackers to intercept communications, or add themselves as an entity on a 3rd party's roster as another user, which will also garner associated privileges, via crafted XMPP packets.
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Affected products
6- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
Patches
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References
10- bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/rawnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cginvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
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