mcabber vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

* Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

MCabber could be made to modify the roster and intercept messages
if it received specially crafted XMPP packets.

Software Description

* mcabber - small Jabber (XMPP) console client

Details

It was discovered that MCabber does not properly manage roster
pushes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to remotely
perform man-in-the-middle attacks. (CVE-2016-9928).

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
mcabber - 0.10.2-1+deb8u1build0.16.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

* CVE-2016-9928

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