Bug 1295475 (CVE-2015-8688)

Summary:	CVE-2015-8688 gajim: Message interception due to unverified origin of roster push
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	carnil, lemenkov, mschmidt
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	gajim 0.16.5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:47:01 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1295476, 1295477
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-01-04 15:56:25 UTC

It was found that gajim doesn’t verify the origin of roster pushes thus allowing third parties to modify the roster.

External reference:

http://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html

Upstream patch:

https://trac.gajim.org/changeset/af78b7c068904d78c5dfb802826aae99f26a8947/

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-01-04 15:56:52 UTC

Created gajim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1295476]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1295477]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:47:01 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.