Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2411-1 mumble -- information disclosure

Date Reported:
19 Feb 2012
Affected Packages:
mumble
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 659039.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-0863.
More information:

It was discovered that Mumble, a VoIP client, does not properly manage permissions on its user-specific configuration files, allowing other local users on the system to access them.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.2-6+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.3-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your mumble packages.