Bug 461424 (CVE-2008-3969)

Summary:	Bitlbee 1.2.3 was released, update required
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
Component:	bitlbee	Assignee:	Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	mcepl, mcepl, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/timeline?daysback=90&changeset=on
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Fixed In Version:	1.2.3-1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Robert Scheck 2008-09-07 19:54:40 UTC

Description of problem:
Bitlbee 1.2.3 was released, see the following changelog:

Version 1.2.3:
- Fixed one more flaw similar to the previous hijacking bug, caused by incon-
  sistent handling of the USTATUS_IDENTIFIED state. All code touching these
  variables was reviewed and should be correct now.

Finished 7 Sep 2008

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bitlbee-1.2.2-1

Actual results:
bitlbee-1.2.2-1

Expected results:
bitlbee-1.2.3-1 ;-)

Comment 1 Robert Scheck 2008-09-07 20:00:20 UTC

Upstream writes on the main page in the news section:

Unfortunately 1.2.2 did not fix all possible account hijacking loopholes. 
Another very similar flaw was found by Tero Marttila. In the migration to
the user configuration storage abstraction layer, a few safeguards that
prevent overwriting existing accounts disappeared. Over the week I went
over all the related code to make sure that everything's done in a sane,
safe and consistent way.

Comment 2 Robert Scheck 2008-09-07 20:16:44 UTC

Package: bitlbee-1.2.3-1.fc10 Tag: dist-f10 Status: complete
Package: bitlbee-1.2.3-1.fc9 Tag: dist-f9-updates-candidate Status: complete
Package: bitlbee-1.2.3-1.fc8 Tag: dist-f8-updates-candidate Status: complete

127 (bitlbee): Build on target fedora-5-epel succeeded.
128 (bitlbee): Build on target fedora-4-epel succeeded.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-09-07 20:17:45 UTC

bitlbee-1.2.3-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/bitlbee-1.2.3-1.fc8

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-09-07 20:17:49 UTC

bitlbee-1.2.3-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/bitlbee-1.2.3-1.fc9

Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2008-09-08 07:40:03 UTC

Few references:

Upstream news page with announcement already quoted in comment #1:
  http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html

Upstream changelog:
  http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/changelog.html

Upstream fix:
  http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/changeset/devel%2C443

Comment 6 Robert Scheck 2008-09-08 11:07:28 UTC

To make Matej Cepl happy: The changeset mentioned in comment #5 is part of 
Bitlbee 1.2.3, so currently no open task/jobs etc.

Comment 7 Tomas Hoger 2008-09-09 18:33:05 UTC

CVE id CVE-2008-3969 was assigned to this additional fix in bitlbee 1.2.3.

Comment 8 Tomas Hoger 2008-09-11 06:27:43 UTC

CVE-2008-3969:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in BitlBee before 1.2.3 allow
remote attackers to "overwrite" and "hijack" existing accounts via
unknown vectors.  NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix
for CVE-2008-3920.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-09-11 16:54:24 UTC

bitlbee-1.2.3-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2008-09-11 16:59:22 UTC

bitlbee-1.2.3-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.