Bug 1153839 (CVE-2014-8760)

Summary:	CVE-2014-8760 ejabberd: clients can unexpectedly connect without encryption
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	erlang, extras-orphan, jkaluza, lemenkov, martin
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1153840, 1153841, 1153842
Bug Blocks:	1153843

Description Murray McAllister 2014-10-16 23:58:29 UTC

It was reported that clients could unexpectedly connect without encryption:

http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2014-October/002438.html

Upstream fix (master):

https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/commit/7bdc1151b

References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/312

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-10-16 23:59:15 UTC

Created ejabberd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1153840]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1153841]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1153842]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:35:15 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.